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so skewl is fun. it's kind of been a weird transition. i haven't gone to school at all in almost 1.5 years, and not to a university in 5x that. i'm taking professional writing, which has been really easy and boring because everything we've covered i learned in high school journalism; formal grammar, which is what it is--apparently we're due to break down words into their phenomical and morphological parts, which i really look forward to, but so far it's kind of eh; and north american dialects, which is awesome. basically all we've done in variations in american english is talk about accents. seriously. it's amazing. i have the same professor for the last two classes i mentioned. he loves to do dialectic impersonations, much to the amusement of the class. i get kind of freaked out because i find myself forming the sounds in my throat and tongue, and i'm afraid i'm going to accidentally make the noise aloud. anyway, one of my projects for grammar--technically the class is called "structures of modern english"--is an "adopt-a-word" essay in which we choose two words and basically write everything about those words: their respective etymologies, parts of speech, semantic variations, etc. i think i'm going to choose "fag" and "punk," because those words are loaded with history, evolution, and hinge on self-identity. the etymology in one of those words alone could be one page in manuscript format. COMEON.
yeah, so i don't know what else to write about. work sucks, life is boring. but everything on the whole is not so bad. i got a new orchid. it's beautiful. i ran into a bunch of people i used to know at a bar on the same night. it was overwhelming, but not unpleasant, though i got an undeniable sense that they all hate their lives and are not happy people--save one person who said, "i'm really happy right now." which was good to hear. i kind of thought it was weird that no one really asked about my life or really offered information about their own. it was less a catching up and more a bam now i'm just hanging out with them as if i always had. this was weird, since i hadn't seen some of them in seven or so years. i talked about it with jared, who was there with me, and we agreed that they all just didn't want to talk about their shitty lives and didn't want to hear about my possibly less shitty life.
could i use "really" more? something to work on i guess. i'm trying to use less commas and to say "um" less often. REAL GOALS.
oh yeah, and i saw the 1D movie and it was about an hour too long. i wanted to leave but they hadn't performed "kiss you" yet. and then by the time they did the movie was clearly almost over so might as well finish it up.