What a strange feeling....
Boy, it sure does feel weird to be around Ann Arbor this time of year, but only because no longer will I be continuing my journey here as a student. Living off campus should make things much easier, but working in the heart of campus only adds to the problem. I can no longer park, but there have been other aspects of the rapid move-in that more than offset such a slight inconvenience.
Firstly, it never, and I mean never, fails to amaze me how much different the student population looks the first few weeks of school. By that I mean that just about every girl I see looks fuckin' hot to me. Maybe it's pre-frosh 15...maybe it's the tans...maybe it's the revealing clothing..I just don't know. Another theory is that after a long time away from multitudes of girls (staying here in the summer leads to seeing the same girls night after night after...) it may just be like some kind of renewed culture shock, a reawakening of dormant hormones, who knows. All that matters to me is there is a lot of scenery around.
Secondly, I'm continually realizing how much not being a student actually can matter to my lifestyle here. For one, I can't just go use the rec center, I'd have to pay an obscene amount of money to join. Also, and even more sadly, I can't get student priced tickets to sporting events. Lastly, it's going to be weird telling new people I'm graduated, just because it's like I'm suddenly out of the loop somehow. I can't really explain it.
Let me make quick mention of some congratulations. My roommate Mike Shea is once again a U of M student as of today. He'll even be taking a mechanical engineering class this semester, so I will certainly be able to be of some help I think. Alright, I'll continue my regular blogging with some recaps of the past few weekends shortly, and the previosuly mentioned name dropping requests will hopefully soon be taken care of. Cya.
1 Comments:
dude! ok this is just a comment to your profile/ok, you, in general... first of all, adaptation is an awesome movie... i totally identify with the search for that singular passion that just... defines you... and if it's adventure, then it's adventure. And... trying to find any way to escape that wretched idea of the system... which we need... but... to find some way to just ride along and not live the life that everyone prescribed for you when you were born in the suburbs (ok, i don't know if you were, but i was). Why is the american dream to have some straightforward job, to wish you had more vacation, more benefits, or more salary? I have no idea how it would work out, but I can totally see living some renegade life... getting people with legit jobs to pay for me to teach english to orphans in africa or some bullshit like that. we're young! it's not time for us to don a suit and tie and coral-shaded lipstick! (well i hope not in your situation). why does everyone abandon their wild reckless ambition when they graduate college? why do we succumb to this monotony? i seriously want to retain this throughout my life. it CAN work! "realizing reality?" it's just giving in! that's so depressing! there are people who evade this "reality." it CAN be done. if we're so smart, why can't we just avoid this horrible prescription for suburban monotony and predictability? ok, i won't take up any more of your precious comment space, seeing as i'm the only one to comment... hmmm.. if there are any typos, sorry... this was that one night when... ya... soo... drinking? bad for health. but random, and ok. night.
By Natalie, at August 31, 2004 at 11:49 PM
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