sentimentality

Autumn is in the air.  It’s finally that time.  The leaves are changing, the air becomes chilled and crisp, and October is in full bloom. Oh how I love the changing of seasons.  It probably says something about me that I only really enjoy the seasons in transition to their fullest.  I think the surprise and enchantment of a beautifully chilly/warm day is just superb in comparison to an expectedly sticky-humid or frigidly-cold day.

 Just finished writing  a ten page paper on the similarities and differences of the South Africa and Northern Ireland conflicts and how these aided or hindered movements towards peace in each region.  And I’ve found that there is one benefit to locking yourself up in a mini-cubicle at the library for almost twelve hours – you leave with a definite sense of accomplishment.  Even if what you have accomplished doesnt nearly compare to what you could have if wireless internet and Facebook didn’t exist, you still feel like you must have achieved something for spending that absurd amount of time there.  I think there’s a whole sub-culture of people at the library in the wee hours of the morning too.  Staying in the one computer cluster for so long, I was able to see people come and go.  But those of us who stayed the longest (and we knew who we were), formed a whole different group of people.  It was a late-night/early-morning library brotherhood, trust me.

 Anyway, another benefit of locking yourself away in a library for a significant number of hours is that anything other than being in a library feels like sweet, sweet freedom.  Even if it involves missing the hour-long Office episode because you have to hide in your dorm’s tornado shelter after sirens sound out on campus.  Even the dining hall food tastes a little sweeter once the burden of an individual research paper has been lifted from your shoulders.

My friday schedule’s looking pretty bonkers - 9:35-10:25 class, 10:25-11:00 hand in paper and shop in bookstore, 11-11:45 lunch, 11:45-1:30 tour, 1:30-2 potato sushi, 2:00ish meeting for haunted tour, 5:oo walkover to rally, and then….done!

Hm…the new Jimmy Eat World album needs work.

Love.