Thoughts on Beginnings and Ends

When I first created this blog (a year ago this week!), I was facing a pretty hefty beginning. I was leaving my native country for the first time to live abroad in a (not so) strange land and, lured by the apparent fame of travel and personal bloggers whose every spare thought is deemed credible by their legions of readers, I had high hopes for chronicling every detail of it.

As much as my time abroad was definitely a beginning, it was also an end. While the actual experience of studying abroad was far from the life-changing experience it’s touted to be (hence the lack of deep, insightful posts while there?), the time I spent there and the time I spent building up to that experience did change me. I began to spend slightly less time online, preferring to talk to people in “real life” instead; I began focusing more on “getting out there” and “experiencing my environment”; and most important of all, I made the decision to be more honest and open with the people around me.

I thought about that decision tonight as I waved goodbye and yelled after her, “Call me if you’re back early on Sunday!” She yelled back that she would as she crossed the street and entered campus proper. The girl in question and I have been friends since day one – the first day of freshman year. There was a time when we saw each other almost every day. Lately, though, with a plethora of excuses like “increased workload”, “job hunting” and “hectic schedules”, we’ve found it harder and harder to make the time. This sort of dodging defines our relationship – or at least my side of it. There have been times when I hoped we might become more than just friends, and times when I knew things would never work out if we were.

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Decisions, decisions…

I’ve got a date tomorrow, two midterms and two interviews to study for – oh, and I have job apps due tomorrow at midnight.

Overloaded much?

Sang tonight in Gaston to a pretty forgiving crowd. One assumes most of them were parents; I don’t know who else would be crazy enough to pay the money necessary to get a ticket… And now, off a high like that, I’m expected to do job apps?

I’ve cleaned my room, watched several episodes of Babylon 5 (I’m on Season 5!), and now I’m faced with the ultimatum: I’m out of other things to do. Better get down to it.

For the rest of you, enjoy the link of the night. It’s a wonderful showing of humanity’s strengths… Or just a funny read.

That is all.

I’ll bet he does…

This link certainly is interesting.

Comments later… Job Search = Death for the moment.

*Update*

This article should be titled: “Well-meaning if inappropriate joke met with typical right-wing conservative ‘creativity’!” Don’t get me wrong – I love the Christian Right as much as the next guy; I mean, how else would I get my daily dose of laughter? But this is ridiculous. You just know some southern lawyer felt god had “asked him to step up and defend his name” or some such bullshit. That or someone equally “clever” (not necessarily right-wing, conservative, OR Christian) thought it’d be funny to add a tongue-in-cheek reply. Either way – the response misses the point of the message. Probably cost the system money in filing costs and getting the whole mess dismissed. Good job, whoever. Well done.