zomg wow
Well, a miracle has occurred. Somehow, someway, I've managed to get a life. It's not a particularly great one, but I have a life! I have a life! I'm very excited.
This past weekend was Tiffi's 21st birthday, so I finally went down to Columbus for the first time to celebrate it with her and a few other friends. There was much fun, partying and clubbing and moderate (or in the case of Tiffi, a whole lot of) drinking. I was a ditz, though, and I forgot my ID at home. It was a miracle I managed to get into the club at all, because I didn't have any picture ID on my at all. They finally accepted my credit card plus my immunization card in lieu of ID, although they marked me as underage. Next time I go down to visit, I will definitely not forget anything!
...and of course I've just jinxed myself. Undoubtedly, I will forget something different but also incredibly important in some way. Oh, well.
Then oddly enough, it seems I have a few former friends and acquaintances that go to my new school, which I did not know about! One I'm really, really excited about. I ran into Amanda on Monday, who I haven't seen since our high school graduation. She sort of dropped off the face of the earth and while I'd heard a few things about what she'd been up to (despite not having a life, until recently I was always amazingly up-to-date on what my high school friends were doing and where they were), I hadn't known she was going to school. It turns out she's going to graduate in the summer, too.
Anyway, after I ran into her on Monday, I was hoping to run into her again today, and I did. We had lunch together and got all caught up. I got her number, she got mine, I gave her Tiffi's (they were best friends in high school, but they haven't spoken since Amanda's graduation either--very odd), hopefully we'll get together again sometime.
There are at least two other people I've run into or just seen on campus. Nancy, who was more of a friend of a friend, but we had lunch together last week and she's very nice. Then as I was leaving today, I saw Heather, who was another friend from high school... kind of. She's sweet, but very flighty. It'd be nice to talk to her again, even just to catch up.
So yeah, I have stumbled onto a life where I do lunches with people and go to clubs and parties. I wonder how long it will last before my anti-social personality pops up and I start hiding in my room again...
"Maybe... there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends - people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what it has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart..."
- Stephen King, IT
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
- Samuel Adams
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
- E.L. Doctorow
"What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?"
- Nietzsche
"Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great."
- Author Unknown
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
- Allan K. Chalmers
"Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are."
- Allan K. Chalmers
"There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded desireable, that calls for art or for character."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love."
- Washington Irving
"The dark is generous, and it is patient and it always wins; but in the heart of its strength lies weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars."
- Matt Stover, Revenge of the Sith novelization
This past weekend was Tiffi's 21st birthday, so I finally went down to Columbus for the first time to celebrate it with her and a few other friends. There was much fun, partying and clubbing and moderate (or in the case of Tiffi, a whole lot of) drinking. I was a ditz, though, and I forgot my ID at home. It was a miracle I managed to get into the club at all, because I didn't have any picture ID on my at all. They finally accepted my credit card plus my immunization card in lieu of ID, although they marked me as underage. Next time I go down to visit, I will definitely not forget anything!
...and of course I've just jinxed myself. Undoubtedly, I will forget something different but also incredibly important in some way. Oh, well.
Then oddly enough, it seems I have a few former friends and acquaintances that go to my new school, which I did not know about! One I'm really, really excited about. I ran into Amanda on Monday, who I haven't seen since our high school graduation. She sort of dropped off the face of the earth and while I'd heard a few things about what she'd been up to (despite not having a life, until recently I was always amazingly up-to-date on what my high school friends were doing and where they were), I hadn't known she was going to school. It turns out she's going to graduate in the summer, too.
Anyway, after I ran into her on Monday, I was hoping to run into her again today, and I did. We had lunch together and got all caught up. I got her number, she got mine, I gave her Tiffi's (they were best friends in high school, but they haven't spoken since Amanda's graduation either--very odd), hopefully we'll get together again sometime.
There are at least two other people I've run into or just seen on campus. Nancy, who was more of a friend of a friend, but we had lunch together last week and she's very nice. Then as I was leaving today, I saw Heather, who was another friend from high school... kind of. She's sweet, but very flighty. It'd be nice to talk to her again, even just to catch up.
So yeah, I have stumbled onto a life where I do lunches with people and go to clubs and parties. I wonder how long it will last before my anti-social personality pops up and I start hiding in my room again...
"Maybe... there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends - people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what it has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart..."
- Stephen King, IT
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
- Samuel Adams
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
- E.L. Doctorow
"What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?"
- Nietzsche
"Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great."
- Author Unknown
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
- Allan K. Chalmers
"Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are."
- Allan K. Chalmers
"There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded desireable, that calls for art or for character."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love."
- Washington Irving
"The dark is generous, and it is patient and it always wins; but in the heart of its strength lies weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars."
- Matt Stover, Revenge of the Sith novelization