The Adventure
Published by Ryan at December 15th, 2009♫ Listening to “I Woke Up In A Car” by Something Corporate ♫
It’s been almost a month since I last blogged. I apologize for this. Also, for the lack of updates. However, I’ve been working on some new concepts (patterns, textures, brushes) in Photoshop, so I will have those up some time soon! Life is great today. Life has been great for, like, the past two months. It’s pretty strange, pretty awesome. I’m not used to being happy just because. Sometimes I backslide, but I try to appreciate the little things and look at the world in a different light. It’s been helping a lot.
I’ve been wicked busy with school–well, sort of. I mean, I’ve had a ton of assignments, tests, studying, but I haven’t really been doing it. I have, but I haven’t. I’ve suddenly developed a social life in the past two months, and it’s just so much more fun that being alone at home every day, studying. I befriended an acquaintance, Rob, who is in my Sociology class and is the Entertainment Editor for our school paper. He’s very nice. We’ve been hanging out a lot. I used to never hang out during the school week. We go to movies, Starbucks, walks at a park, and do basically anything together. He’s the first real friend–my age, anyhow–that I’ve had this whole school year! I forgot how nice it is to have a good best friend.
Friday I worked three-eleven pm. It wasn’t that bad, actually. I had a lot of fun with co-workers and it was busy on and off, which always is good; to have distractions, something to pass time. Saturday, I got up at seven-thirty (I know, right?) and at one I met Rob, Matt (Rob’s friend, who I reckon is now mine, too), and Amanda (Matt’s crush and girl from homeroom) at ShopKo. We wanted to escape from our mundane town for a day, so we took off for Springfield. The car ride was fun; good vibes, lots of laughs, and all. When we got there we ate Taco Bell, and then hurried into the movie theatre to see A Perfect Man:
The movie is about a Jewish husband and father of two children, whose life is brusquely disrupted when his wife asks for a divorce, and an oriental student of Larry’s Physics class goes to extreme measures to get the grade he desires. With its dark humor, explicit profanity, and quirky characters, this movie is seriously now one of my favourites. Everyone else liked it and laughed a lot. It was a limited release movie that came out three months ago, by the way. I might ask for it for Christmas.
After the movie, we went window shopping at the White Oaks Mall, which was nice, albeit depressing to realize my lack of bread. We went to Barnes & Noble after the mall, and I purchased Dry. by Augusten Burroughs. The car ride back was a lot of fun, too, and it was nice, dark and all, the highway lights vivid. I felt good, I felt important; a part of something more than myself. For the first time in awhile, I feel like I actually have friends. It’s an amazing feeling, I’ll tell you.
Finals are this week: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Then it is the end of our semester! Winter break is in a few days! We get out the 18th and don’t return to school until January 5th. I’m so excited for break, to work more, sans homework to peeve me out whilst I am toiling at work (haha, just kidding) for eight-hour shifts; hang out more with Rob, and probably Matt and Amanda; to go for another “roadtrip” to Springfield; to be able to sleep in; basically, freedom! But once all of the fun is over and school resumes, I’m going to try harder, and prioritize. I’m not okay with B’s and C’s, though it’s a bit different with AP courses. Either way.
Let me know what you guys are doing for your winter breaks! I hope everyone has a Merry Chrismukkah! Happy Holidays!
