i've realized suddenly that by being away, and by having only certain selective contact with certain selective people who i've deemed worthy of keeping in touch with, i've gained a bit more perspective on everyone. that is to say, everyone's flaws and the quirks that i've always lived with but never noticed, suddenly seem much more apparent. not ( Read more... )

the later you sleep the shorter your day is, which is a sort of unfortunate side effect of college i've noticed lately. things are becoming uneventful owing to finals and too much work, and everyone's become a little frantic and a little short-tempered ( Read more... )

i suppose everyone gets to be a little bit drunk but within the radius of typing and make an entry every once in a while. especially when they have been recently scorned by alcoholic boys for not drinking enough. and when they have spent over $50 in one evening. and start to think it was worth it, even if only for not enough drinks and amazing ( Read more... )

so at 1 oclock last night i was giving a music theory lesson to a drunk boy trying to play harmonica 200 miles away from me ( Read more... )

i suppose this entire opera experience in a technical sense has left me a bit more cultured. to say the least, lincoln center at christmas is beautiful, and the building itself is all ivory and burgundy and glass. they've got the sort of carpet your feet actual sink into, and they apparently just got these new chandeliers which look like little ( Read more... )

--i've changed my mind so much i can't even trust it ( Read more... )

this weekend destroyed me ( Read more... )

everyone else in the world likes school more than me. and i really want to know if it's them, the school, or me.
probably some combination.

it's a nice stay in a be sick with mint tea stolen from starbucks and draw day all alone. it's not typically okay to do that in college, you know? you're not supposed to be boring like that... BUT I'M BREAKING ALL THE RULES, and sitting on the floor with my book and my computer and permanent markers and the decemberists and the mountain goats and ( Read more... )

this was a weekend of underwhelmedness and overwhelmedness in too close quarters. but i learned many things ( Read more... )