In A Few Days (repeat post)

I will be home in one week and three days!!

Very exciting, yet a little sad, leaving behind these new experiences, and people I countered on them. But it made me think of those of you first-time freshman, with finals coming up, and the weeks left of school this year starting to dwindle, who will be for the first time, breaking away from this newfound college experience, and the wierdness of it all. So I thought I'd revive this old post I made last year around this time. Even though its a little pre-mature (more like in a few weeks for some of you) maybe it will really hit home.

In A Few Days

A year has past and now we stand on the brink of returning to a world where we are surrounded by the paradox of everything yet nothing being the same. In a few days we will reluctantly give our hugs and, fighting the tears, say goodbye to the people who were once just names on a sheet of paper to return to people that we hugged and fought tears to say goodbye to before we ever left. We will leave our best friends to return to our best friends. We will go back to places we came from and go back to the same things we did last summer and every summer before. We will come into town on that same familiar road, and even thought it has been months, it will seem like only yesterday.

As you walk into your old bedroom, every emotion will pass through you as you reflect on the way your life has changed and the person you have become. You suddenly realize that the things that were most important to you a year ago don't seem to matter so much anymore, and the things you hold highest now, no one at home will completely understand. Who will you call first? Where are you going to work? Who will be at the party Saturday night? What has everyone been up to? Who from school will you keep in touch with? How long before you actually start missing people barging in without calling or knocking? Who will get breadsticks with you at three in the morning? How long until you adjust to sleeping in a room by yourself, or how long before you realize your three best friends aren't in the bed next to your room?

Then you realize how much things have changed, you realize the hardest part of college is balancing the two completely different worlds you now live in, trying desperately to hold on to everything all the while trying to figure out what you have to leave behind. In the matter of one day's traveling time, we will leave our world of living next door to our best friends, walking across campus to eat, instant messenger, 8:00 classes, and perpetual procrastination to a world that will seem foreign to us despite the fact that we have lived in it for nineteen years.

But it is different now... We now know the meaning of true friendship. We know whom we have kept in touch with over the past year and whom we hold dearest to our hearts. We've left our high school worlds to deal with the real world. We have had our hearts broken, we've fallen in love, we've helped our best friends through the toughest times of their lives, something their even best friends at home couldn't be there for. We've stayed up all night just to be there for a friend. We've partied the night away, doing stupid stuff, but we were always there for each other afterwards.

A few days from now we will leave. A few days from now we take down our pictures, and pack up our clothes. No more going next door to do nothing for hours on end. We will leave our friends whose random emails and phone calls will bring us to laughter and tears this summer. We will take our memories and dreams and put them away for now, saving them for our return to this world.

A few days from now we will dig deep inside to find the strength and conviction to adjust to change and still keep each other close. And somehow, in someway, we will find our place between these two worlds.

In a few days.... are you ready?

MuteMath was awesome!!!

so i spent my easter weekend in lincoln. actually, sounds lame, but i spent most of easter hanging out by myself in charley's apartment, while she had to go to work. but it was so worth it!! on monday, charley, reid, garrett, and i ate lunch on campus, and we invited maggie, but she was too busy. later that night was the mutemath concert. it was so cool. they were AMAZING. i mean it. it was so loud, i almost puked. i've never had that problem at concerts before, but im gonna take it as it means mutemath was that great. they were so awesome, i didn't even mind getting sick. im still kicking myself we didn't ask the drummer for a picture charley!!!!! he totally talked to us. we could see every bead of sweat pouring down his face. damn, we are idiots. but it was still AWESOME!!!!!!!

SO HILARIOUS!!

...and this is why I love the internet

Happy Birthday(s)!

What makes you feel better when you miss your flight to Poland?

Celebrity Gossip.

And what's better than more freakishly fake news about TomKat.
Here's the most recent pics of Katie and her fake bump.



The only way that these pictures could have any semblance of any truth whatsoever would be if Katie were carrying a litter of 14 babies ... Or a basketball.



I mean seriously ... she's kidding right? If Scientology sperm is really that potent than we are in for some serious trubs.

Unless of course I'm just being mean, and maybe whatever is in there is just really ready to come out. But Mission: Impossible: III opens on May 5th ... so I wouldn't be surprised if Katie doesn't spill her spawn until thereabouts.



Tom Cruise has reportedly bought an adult-sized pacifier for fiancee Katie Holmes - to keep her silent during childbirth. As devout followers of Scientology the beautiful actress and her husband-to-be have to maintain a vigil of total silence in the delivery suite.Tom hopes the large pacifier will help Katie to stay calm.

A source is quoted in America's Star magazine as saying: "He commissioned an adult-sized 'binky' for Katie to clench between her teeth, hoping that it'll squelch her screams.
"In keeping with a Scientology silent birth, Tom is prepared to do whatever it takes to muffle Katie's moans and groans during the delivery."

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, in his book 'Dianetics', also discourages painkillers being used during the delivery and maintains that childbirth should be silent to "save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go."

So apparently cult-religions are still gobbling up more followers in hollywood...

It's no secret that Lindsay Lohan has hopped on the celebrity bandwagon that is Kabbalah. Once the domain of devoted scholars and religious leaders, the ancient form Jewish mysticism has now been coopted by the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, and yes, Lindsay Lohan. "Yes, I am looking into Kabbalah," confirmed Lohan. "All of us need something. You just have to grab on to whatever gets you through. Maybe it's this business, but it seems everything can be tough, so hard."

At least it's not Scientology. What is it with these crazy celebrities? If it's not drugs, alcohol, or sex tapes, it's the latest religious craze. Regardless, just because you put on a red string bracelet, doesn't mean your an instant philospher. In fact, the red bracelet has nothing to do with Kabbalah. I'm not going to get into a whole treatise on religion and mysticism here, but let's jsut say whatever it is those celebrities think they're studying (or smoking), it's not Kabbalah. Lindsay, why don't you get a hobby, or a new eating disorder, but seek salvation elsewhere, okay?