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college
Posted Nov 8, 2004
College is f*****g disneyland or some sort of alternate universe. I swear this on my soul. Everything's accelerated. I find myslef connecting with people I've only known for two months, like I'm on some sort of f*****g short-cut to friendship plan.
This is not normal. It's probably because we're all living together, but even in my highschool, which is the smallest you've ever heard of, I promise (my class graduated 10, yup, you got that right, 10), things weren't like this. True friendship came slowly. There were people who I'd known since the age of eleven who I only became good friends with durring senior year. I just find the acceleration of everything here rediculous, and I don't know what to make of it.
Sometimes when I think about this I think it may not be healthy or natural, and that college is perhaps the most artificial environment that exists. Then, after a thought or two along these lines, I realize that every environment is artifical, even the complete wilderness. My logic for this is that everything that happens, or even everything that is, is somehow connected to everything else. By this logic, the artificality of even one small, semi-contained environment (say my college) has the capibility to permiate and destroy anything natural that it may be connected to. Take our arburidum ("spelling should never be anybody's strong point"--ryan richard crawford) for example: We have a beautiful piece of land with glacial ponds, trees, wildlife, and general nature out just behind some of the dorms. As much as we might appriciate our bit of nature for what it is, we are incapable of leaving it alone. We drag chairs and matresses back there and smoke and drink. People shove their unwanted bongs into holes in trees. Generally, we only care about the nature we have no connection to, not what is there available for us to destroy. What we don't realize, however, is that by damaging our bit of nature we're hurting New Jersey (I know, I didn't think New Jersey could take any more either, but apperently...) because our little woods are (I believe) the largest stand of decidious (and possibly old growth) trees in the state. Now if we continue our college kid shinanagins amoungst the trees, and somehow wreck this forest (which I'm sure we will), it will contribute to the rapid decline of New Jersey, which will in turn reach out to the entire tri-state region and move up to New England, down south, and over to the midwest. I guess some of us see hope, but just from my rich kid mecca in Dirty Jerz I can see a pattern of destruction across the country, and that's only this particular path. If I attempted to map the destruction that stems from one man (my disreputible president, for whom I would choose to be ANYWHERE BUT HERE) I would probably kill myself as a sacrifice to what ever shred of god there might be somewhere, in hopes of getting that man smited, so on that note, instead of doing that, I'm going to bed. Ah, bed.
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oh boy
Posted Jan 17, 2003
I just got my permit. That means I can drive on the roads. Somebody ought to have a problem with this. I thought I would fail, but I passed. Oh boy.
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snow
Posted Jan 16, 2003
Snow is cold and wet and up to my waist. This is not right. Last night (at least I think it was last night) I was convinced by my dear friends Jo, Jackie, Cori, and Jazz to roll up my pants, take off my socks, and go have a race in the snow. Here's the really stupid part: I did it. Yup, there I was, coldest person on the planet, out side in many feet of snow with nothing to protect my feet, getting stuck behind the fallen form of dear little Jackie as she struggled to get to the door. Needless to say I then took it upon myself to fall on her and extend the whole freezing experience. And all of this was happening in Vermont. VERMONT!!!!! If that isn't stupid, I don't know what is. Of course, it was all the falt of our djs, who were late.
UG.
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last day
Posted Jan 2, 2003
Today is my last day of living in Spain. Tomorrow I´ll get on to a train at 6:45 am and leave it all behind.
Spain is such an interesting place. I´ve joked with my friends about how wierd Spain is, and of course had moments when I´ve wished to be home, but I will never regret coming here. My only regret is that I couldn´t stay longer.
The day today is beautiful, just the right temperature with the perfect mixture of sun and wind, and I have to spend most of it inside packing and such.
I don´t know when I´ll get back to Valencia, or how much it will have changed when I do return. It´s such a wonderful city, it´s beautiful and fun, and it´s been my home for four months. It´s going to be hard to leave it, not to mention hard to leave my host mum, Paqui, and all my friends here.
It´s so strange to think that in just a few days I´ll be waking up in New England to snow and my cat. Everyone around me will be speeking English and I wont be a forigener any more. I wonder when I´ll next look out on the beautiful plaza de la virgen while drinking a cafe con leche or cafe cortado. And tonight will be the last time for quite a while that I see the fountian lit up at night. I never went inside the bull ring.
Now all this is coming back to me, regrets about what I didn´t see or do, regrets about spending too much time lost in my own little world as I speed walked down the streets, not quite taking in enough.
I guess everything has to end, but this seems so sudden and so soon, I just wish I could have a little more time, but I don´t, so I should go enjoy what I can for my last few hours here.
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pretty city
Posted Dec 29, 2002
Barcelona is really pretty and cool. I got cold yesterday and today I tried to understand Catalan. Not too hard, as it´s close to Valenciano, but not very easy eeither. My mum, aunt, and uncle don´t speek Spanish or Catalan, so it´s all up to me. Urg.
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