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Things are still in the same kind of motion, not much to report.
I could talk about my spanish class, which is working on burning me out. Yesterday I found out I had a midterm tomorrow...on things we haven't covered in class yet...and things we haven't read in the book yet...on things we weren't supposed to cover until two weeks from now. I tried to tell him I didn't know where to find the things he was listing on the board that the test would cover, and he didn't understand me because of course he doesn't understand anything we say.
Other than this little area of insanity, and the other, less exciting drudgery from the other classes, I spend a lot of my time biking to campus and back (avg 40 minutes a day really) and sleeping. and cooking. been doing that a lot. I'm not really bored, but I'm feeling this weird nervous pressure, as if I'm supposed to be accomplishing SO much more than I am every day. Like I should be making more friends, faster, like I should Get Involved, and be all kinds of active and that shit. I should be joining clubs or something. Maybe I feel this way because of the vast body of evidence that says everyone here is completely isolated until they find some sub- sub-group that makes them feel alright. for a lot of people this seems to be athletics, for many more its the parties. meh. My actual and ought selves will have to continue to battle it out. until I find the motivation to change something.
In the mean time, I'm a strange kind of tourist on Academia Isle. I take a lot of pictures with my new camera of things that are unique, or cliche, or illustrative in some way of this national phonomenon I've gotten myself into. I have some pictures of the masses as they flock, a bicycle in a tree, a giant condom themed tent containing an IMAX rollercoaster. You know, that stuff that happens here everyday.
Also the leaves are turning and they are all kinds of beautiful. Right now I'm especially interested in the ones that are mostly green with a hazing of red over one side.
Okay. no more break. back to the conjugating of the verbs.