Coming back home has rendered some mixed feelings in my book. I'm glad to not be living in a 12x15 prison cell, glad to have finally thrown away my awful pair of shower flip-flops, and I'm especially thankful to have rekindled a friendship with someone I thought had walked out of my life. However, there were a handful of things about living here ( Read more... )

Three more weeks of class and I will officially be done with my first year of college. I'm not quite sure where all that time went, but I think I have a good idea. There's a lot that I have to take from my experiences here, mainly because this world that I've grown into was something completely unknown to me, but also because of the changes that ( Read more... )

What is important to you? When you look at your life, what you've done in the past, the state you're in, what lies ahead... what part of all that means something to you? Do you think to yourself "it'll only be so long until I can finally get out of this shit and do what I want?" Or do you say "I'm living the life of my choice, I willingly accept ( Read more... )

It's been so long since I've had some time to update this thing. I remember writing so much last semester, both livejournal posts and some poetry of my own, but this semester seems to be so against giving me any time or energy for the such. At least I've found out how to make do with the shitty atmosphere of the dorm and actually get some work done ( Read more... )

Ahhhh. I love Spanish music. I started listening to it over the summer when I was working for that God-forsaken painting company, and despite how miserable it was working for them, looking back I can really appreciate everything I was doing. For one, I'm pretty proud of how much I could hang in there without hearing any English all day except from ( Read more... )

This week has been a rollercoaster. I can't remember being so excited coming into a new semester, feeling so ready and driven to accomplish all the things I have set out for myself once I got up here again. But then came this week. I also can't remember feeling so drained so early into what's supposedly a fresh start. There have been a lot of ( Read more... )

I'm back home again, if only briefly. My six days up in LaFayette were great, but I think I'm ready to be back. Actually, I'm more excited than anything to be heading back up to Athens. I've realized that my lif e is progressively becoming more and more centered to what goes on up there, rather than here. My house is turning more into my parents' ( Read more... )

I'm in LaFayette once again ( Read more... )

I've been trying really hard over the past few months to not let myself get too carried away with my expectations of everything in the world. For so long, my expectations dominated my thoughts, and often they would be the undoing of any possibility of enjoying various moments in my life. How can we ever live up to the world of our dreams and ( Read more... )

I feel like I've been on the road all winter break so far. Fortunately, my brother has been very diligent about keeping the car in good shape. Oh wait, he still hasn't fixed the car from his accident, he's lost a hubcap, hasn't washed it in ages, and it smells like something died in it. Oh well, at least I have my car back for a little while before ( Read more... )