11.20.2009

coming home

Since I don't have classes on Thursdays and Fridays, I was able to leave for Thanksgiving break yesterday morning.  Having no car means that it is a whole day ordeal, but I am thankful to be home. I was trying to figure out what is so good about being home, and I've come to this conclusion-- there is a different set of responsibilities here (or lack of).  I get to wander around and look in the cupboards for new snack to magically appear, sleep in without feeling too badly, and shut the door and do my work as I please.  But when I get sick of all that, I can go find my mom or dad and shoot the breeze with them (they love taking breaks from whatever they're doing to hang out with me-- I'm a limited time deal). 

Being the youngest kid also means that they haven't given away my storage space.  They did take over my room to make it the computer room and guest room.  But they do a good job and try to move all their stuff before I come home and reclaim the space as mine.  I basically have enough stuff to sustain two lives-- one at school and here.  I have plenty of books, clothes, journals, and music in both places. My computer and a few notebooks thrown into the backpack keep me busy at both locations.  It's an interesting time of my life, an adult student, who still feels like a kid and acts like one too (sometimes).

Thanksgiving. I hope you have a good break from what you're doing and get to hang out with cool people in your life. Peace be with you.

11.14.2009

a new day?

I use to love being on xanga and putting my thoughts down. It was a great procrastination tool (guess what I'm doing now?) but slowly my community on xanga left for bigger and better things and the medium kept changing to a point where I not longer knew how to change the font and the font size. It was a sad day. I stopped posting things and I lament that.

Reading the lovely posts of my friends in my gReader makes me miss them and wish I had a way to respond in full posts and not just little comments. And so here I am, starting a new blog, inspired by some good conversations last night. Little bits of redemption through technology?