I know I have had a relatively short expanse of time on this often baffling world, but yesterday was really awesome. Often when people say that they had a really good day, they are talking about one element-- a great party, a great lunch, a great morning, a great conversation. It just made the whole day better, that one thing. Well I'm here to tell you, this ENTIRE DAY was awesome.
It started with me dressing in all black, because I was "mourning the death" of my friend "Kaylie" (names changed to maintain anonymity). She is not the type of person who parties a lot or goes crazy. She's a nice girl, a romantic, cutie pie to the max, wants to study law, writes poetry, crushes on professors.... But not someone who gets "fucked up". But my friend "Jerry" had convinced her to partake in some of her very first partaying. Some how that translated to her dying, which to say the least wasn't very encouraging for Kaylie-- but she's a good sport.
In any case, dressing for your friends death, when you know she is quite healthy and happy, is some what hilarious. Through out the day, I saw many of our mutual friends dressed in similar somber attire-- the news of her demise clearly had spread.
Then I went to my first class. Kind of an average class, and after I sat in the electrical engineering building to drink tea and study. I simultaneously discovered my love for the EE building and for tea yesterday. Tea is cheap. Cheaper than coffee, and a large is the same price as a small because you pay for the tea bag, not the amount of water, so it feels like a huge bargain. And, besides, I've had a cold for most of the week so tea i soothing. More soothing than coffee. Not that I have decided to, like, not drink coffee. That'd be like saying I'm going to stop breathing-- not possible and would kill me. I also discovered how much I love the EE building, because besides serving tea and coffee, it is also very very quiet in there. They have all these tables by nice windows near the coffee and tea place (cleverly named "Jolt Volt" because of it's home in the EE building) which is lovely. But also, the only people who go in there are nerds! Very very quiet, mild mannered EE nerds. Not at all like the coffee shop in the library which ironically is like the loudest place EVER. It's great for studying because no one is talking, everyone is just reading or doing math (bleh). There, I organized my entire quarters reading and homework, according to all my classes' syllabuses! That was AWESOME! I don't know if it's the OCD person in me, or what, but I love scheduling shit. In this case, my homework schedule. I now know exactly when everything is due, when everything should be started, and completed, in a way where I won't overload myself any one week or day. Everything is nice and neat, and written in my planner. And now I don't have to worry like "when is that do, etc?" because I WILL KNOW!!! YAY!!! That was a great contributor to my great day.
By the time I finished that I went to my second class. Another regular day. BUT AFTERRRRR....
I spent THREE hours in Red Square. I read my really interesting English book, people watched, talked to a man for an hour about UW, talked to my roommates best friend, Kaylie's roommate (who also knew about her imminent death), saw three people from my building, and two people from open mic, and ate maybe the best hot dog ever (and Kosher). Three hours. Three awesome hours just me myself and I watching the world. Sometimes joined by other people, but mostly just sitting alone having a grand old time. Seattle was SUNNY. SUNNY. In my black mourning garb, I was actually HOT. I was peeling off layers. I got tan! IN SEATTLE. WTF?? It was awesome. It was perfect weather. And I've been learning to be on my own, so being able to sit in one place by myself and not feel lonely or bored-- that's huge.
After THAT, I went to go get more tea, because I was thirsty and as I said before tea is great and cheep and soothing. So I'm in line, getting my tea when I hear a voice--near me-- yell my name. I turn around and to my surprise CHRISTOPHER from the Collective of Fall quarter (if you don't know what the collective is, it's just me, Christopher, and Winona, FIG friends who bonded and spent most of fall quarter together). I hadn't seen Christopher since fall quarter! For all I knew, he had DIED or merely fallen off the face of the world. We decided to sit and catch up, and we spent an hour just talking and it was so nice, I feel like crying just thinking about him. I don't think I realized how much I MISSED him. Well, after an hour we parted, both promising to keep in touch this quarter.
THEN, I found out that I had not one, but TWO care packages from home which was so cool. It contained a candy, the movie TANGLED (which I am SO TOTALLY WATCHING TONIGHT), a CUTE stuffed animal lady bug, etc. My mom is so sweet.
I finally got home to find my roommate and Jerry making jello and preparing for Kaylie's death later that night. We finished that, we watched an episode of Skins (UK), I read some of my book, and then my friend down the hall invited me to watch Sailor Moon with her. Which I totally did until dinner time. Then me, my Sailor Moon friend, and Kaylie ate at the BEST Thai place ever!
The night began after that, and lets just say, Kaylie didn't die, but we did have lots of fun.
What does this all mean? College is rad, as my friend Kellbow would say. It really is.
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