Saturday-Saturday

After having such a fantastic Saturday last weekend, it is difficult not to be bitter about right here right now.  Last weekend everyone was around, I met some great new people and had a wonderful time.  This week, Monday is a holiday so most people have gone home for the long weekend.  I live just far enough away for it to be a pain to head home only for two days now.  I don't even have a real reason to go home anyway, just to avoid being alone.  Right now I am literally one of, at most, 5 people left in my hall.  After having such a blast with everyone one week ago, it's strange to be in my dorm alone this time around, typing a blog post and enjoying the abc family harry potter marathon.  It's just so...lonesome.  Not bad, but lonely.

AT LEAST I HAVE MY WIZARD FRIENDS!!1!!1!!!11!

On School and Skipping

So I am a college freshman, and even though at this point people usually refer to school as college or lecture or class, I still call it school.  No need to make learning sound fancier than it really is.  Something you should know about me is that yes, I do like to learn.  I just don't like to learn in the school environment.  I hate having to go to class, or do an online assignment or write an eight page final paper to deem what I am doing as learning.  I prefer to learn from getting out there and learning.  Not just in the school environment.  But by talking to my relatives, or going to a new place and exploring.  I hate picking up an overpriced textbook and saying that I am learning then because I am putting a price and structure to what I am doing.

With that said, I also need to explain the whole being-in-college thing.  I wanted to go to college.  I wanted to be able to dorm and have the college experience.  And frankly in this age, people really do need a college degree to get anywhere, unless said person is lucky enough to have the perfect opportunity available right out of high school, or a really lucky connection to where they want to be.  I like college, I really do!  But sometimes I don't...

I have a knack for skipping classes and for sleeping too much.  And for not doing everything I should be doing here in these four short years.  And then I have these debates with myself about what I should be majoring in.  If I should change my major again, or if I should mull through the one I have and take on a few more classes.  And then I eat too much, or not enough.  And I go to the gym but not enough.  And sometimes I want to go back home, even just for a day, but then that would be a waste.

And that's the way my brain is sometimes.

Monday Morning Blues

Day: Monday
Time: 8:42am
Info: Morning after super bowl.  Very tired, and semi-cranky.  Wants to be drinking coffee/sleeping in comfy dorm bed.

I woke myself up bright and early this morning at 7:15.  I put on my pre-selected outfit and headed to the bathroom to try and fix my face.  Hair tie was left in dorm but I managed to wash my face without difficulty, mad props go to me.  The walk from my dorm to the library took only ten minutes, thanks to my shortcut.  I am at the library, typing up my essay due in class  by 9:05 when a girl from class spots me behind her, comes over to my station, and informs me that class got cancelled.

YOU MEAN I WOKE UP FOUR OR SO HOURS EARLY FOR NOTHING?!
yes.

This is not the first time something unlucky in this way has happened to me.  I have also walked twenty minutes to class at 4:40pm to find out that class was not even on that day.

I think I need to fix up my priorities and such..

A.W.V.

February 1 is the topic of today's post.  I probably should have written that day, but I was probably too preoccupied by class and assignments and the bad weather to bother posting.

My favorite band of all time is MGMT, and the lead singer Andrew Vanwyngarden turned 29 this past February 1st.  As with many people who find a love in a specific band, I looked at his birthday as a day of greatness.  I mean, who wouldn't?  I find him to be brilliant, artistic, lovely, incredible, talented, creative, thoughtful, full of ideas and thought provoking words.  His lyrics are the most beautiful words I have ever had the privilege of listening to.  I find that he is what makes the band so amazing to me.  Of course Ben and also their live band (Matt, Will, James) are all talented and interesting themselves, but I really find that Andrew has a special addition of lovely.  I can't explain this the way I want so I should cut it short.  Basically, I am so grateful for the existence of Andrew Wells Vanwyngarden, and I am not ashamed to admit defeat in this moment of fangirling.

I shall post about MGMT in depth at a later date x