Bright Lights, Big College
Sunday, August 03, 2003
Current Mood: Tired
Current Craving: That ice cream that's just calling for me from the fridge
Proof that I can be a happy person: Struck up a conversation with a guy working at Target... he was cute too.
Most recent movie experienced: "Say Anything" (Jon Cusak can stereo serenade me any day!)
And so it begins…
I had a wonderful post all written out, something eloquent and well-written about going to college and how I hoped this would be a unique way to keep up on each other’s lives, blah, blah, blah, but then the computer had one of those oh-so-evil “Illegal Operation” things and sent my deep thoughts into the great unknown. Of course, this is probably the first of many computer mishaps that will happen, and most will occur right before I finished a 300 page paper that I had sacrificed my eye-sight and social life for, and I will have forgotten to save. Don’t I have a cheery outlook on the next four plus years of my life? Don’t get me wrong, I’m very excited about college and prospect of an education and the potential for reworking and changing your life. It’s all just a little (understatement) overwhelming right now. Like the information obsessed person I am, I have been engulfing my brain with books and articles and the like about college. How to do well, how to decorate and live in a box for an entire year, how not to ruin your life, ect. But today I just got sick of it and decided that there’s only so much that one can read about. It’s just words. Not to sound terribly corny, but I guess I’ve really just got to experience it myself. Close my eyes, plug my nose and jump in. It’s supposed to be the best years of your life… but then again, that’s what they said about high school.
Quote of the week: "When you're finally holding all the cards, why does everyone else decide to play chess?"
Hey guys.
I feel a bit narcissistic creating one of these blog thingys, but I thought it would be an interesting way to let others in on what going on in my life, that I’m alive and (somewhat) functioning, and for me to see how you all are doing. I don’t know, I have one of those rosy visions of everyone creating a little online journal thing and just keeping it up every few weeks (or months) to keep us connecting in a small way. It most likely won’t work, but hey, like every random plan, it’s worth a shot. I know that soon we’ll all be going our separate ways, some jetting off to far off colleges, other taking road trips to less exotic but just as, er, lovely locals, and some remaining here in suburbia, I mean Mesa. Maybe this will be a nice alternative to email, which we are all too lazy to keep up it seems. Of course, if we can’t even do emails who says that we’ll keep this up. Gotta work on that whole “self doubt” thing. But if your’re reading this, take a moment, find a blog, e-journal, web log, whatever, site and create a little space for self-worship. I know that some of you have already figured out this whole online log thing so don’t laugh too hard at my feeble attempt to be cool like you guys. Hey, humor me here.
-Wren
