Monday, July 24, 2006

so content right now

I'm reading On the Road. It may very well be my new favorite book.

This past week was simply lovely. I hung out with Jillian, Sarah, and Thomas, all of whom I have not seen in awhile.

I went to Houston and visited my favorite Chloe and had a simply marvelous time. Silly and goofy yet mature and so incredibly sophisticated at the same time. Ate delicious tacos and talked of dribble. And even though I miss it, there is no withdrawl syndrome. There are just happy memories.

I am ready to go back to school. Summer has been just long enough to be great and wonderful but now I am ready for life to start again. I want to hit play. I am super excited for school, both classes and social life and all the fun we're all going to have discovering lovelies in Fort Worth.

I like Houston. Rice as grad school maybe? Or Columbia, or Carnegie Mellon, or Wash U or perhaps somewhere I have never heard of yet.

I've spent the past two weeks evaluating me: my life, my decisions, my reactions to certain things, my thoughts, my feelings, everything. I've pondered and analyzed and recalibrated my mind for the track I want to take and the person I want to become. I think I'm doing pretty well so far.

I read "Howl" by Alan Ginsburg. I think I like part I the best.
Poetry is growing on me. If I go English, I want to introduce some modern, typically unknown/underground poetry to the kids. And possibly some songs too. Because it's all good stuff.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Saturday
July 8 2006

What’s to be done?
People are busy. Can be dealt with. But annoying.

Friends are slipping away. Sad. But not unexpected.
Doesn’t mean nothing should be done.
But then, can anything be done?
What’s to be done?
That’s the real question.

Work is a bit horrible. My patience is waning. Quickly.

Life is generally good. Happiness? Perhaps, maybe. August will bring about a whirlwind of change. It will be good to be back at school and be intellectually challenged again. But I will certainly miss this summer.