Saturday, June 26, 2010

Your Cost of Attendance is $56,005


WHAAAAA, no college, ever, should cost that much money. And I chose one that does.

I will already be in Argentina two weeks from now. My feelings on the matter have shifted over time. I think they started as a distant excitement. Then I tried to be proactive about my excitement. Eventually it faded and I ignored the whole situation as I focused on being back in California. Then I bought a guide book and didnt really read any of it. I continued to ignore it. Then today I looked to see that two weeks from yesterday I'm boarding a plane. Now I feel terrified, trapped, and not excited. Not how I expected/want to feel. I feel extremely overwhelmed at how expensive its going to be and how much I want to just stay here and relax. Unrealistic. 

I'm a bit annoyed at myself for being in such a terrible mood.

 This morning I pulled a too-upset-and-lazy-to-get-out-of-bed. And so I finally got up at 1215 though I had first woken up hours before. On the one hand, these past few weeks I have felt extremely grateful and happy about my life. And I've felt like a truly optimistic person. But right now I am extremely bitter about
a) Where I live (in terms of living in two houses)
b) Certain relationships around me
c) How expensive everything is compared to the money I have

I feel very uncertain. I feel trapped into the next year of my life. I am going to Argentina (and I will like it god damnit!), I go back to Boston and have an apartment (with 4 people I love), I will be there over the summer (and I need to find an awesome job)... I wonder if I will miss "home" terribly, if I will stay as extremely close to the people here (as I now feel I am)...

Now I am going to continue to be in denial as I go meet up with Nate and spend time with him before he goes to start REAL LIFE. 

I'm so proud of my friends.

love.love.love.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

As much as 100,000 barrels a day (4.2 million US gallons)


Laura asked me to bring her a thermos,  and I couldn't exactly find one but I found what she is calling a "travel mug". I was trying to describe this and I said, "so i brought one of those cups that you can like...poor beverages in" and I was thinking 'this is such a great accurate description!'. She gave me a look. Woops.

I will be in Argentina a month from today. 

Now I would like to credit Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn for putting my thoughts into poetry.



I know you didn't mean it and you're sorry that i left
I'll go right on pretending i've got nothing to regret
Except all of the times we wasted giving only second best
You always seemed to lose the spark when i was only half undressed
I drove across a sea of ice to find my own command
The distance paid a lonesome price to see its motherland
Now if you would unbuckle sir, receive your reprimand
And hey i'm sorry 'bout so much baby but i know you'll understand
I'm sorry 'bout so much baby but i know you'll understand

How can i ever apologize? I meant you no such harm
I never knew i could possess that 
fatal kind of charm
I just wanted to be good to you but i found i was disarmed
By a lifetime of disillusionment and 
the distraction of the stars
I abdicated now i'm just a prince without a land
My subjects all adore me but for this i had them 
banned
Now could i trade my guilt for a good flogging by your hand?
And hey i'm sorry 'bout so much baby but i know you'll understand
I'm sorry 'bout so much baby but i know you'll understand

I can't understand why you refuse my one request
Just to press against my weaponry and then lay bare your chest
Challenges like these can be won or lost or laid to rest
Now we both agree to separate from the lonely castle steps
The kingdom is destabilized, the watchtower unmanned
The bedroom lies abandoned and the future is unplanned
But we've got the past to remind us of love chivalrous and grand
And hey i'm sorry 'bout so much baby but i know you'll understand
I'm sorry 'bout so much baby but i know you'll understand

Saturday, June 5, 2010

It's 85 degrees out


This week I learned that ultrasounds are not just for pregnant women and biopsies are not for dead people.

And we thought learning came from the classroom!