Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Spring has sprung

God the weather is beautiful. I am absolutely loving, loving, loving this weather. My exceptionally good mood continues.

I went to New Voices last week and it was phenomenal. WPI has such incredible talent here, its really amazing. I went to all 4 nights of shows.

For those of you who don't know what New Voices is, let me tell you. New Voices is an annual original works festival that was founded by Prof. Susan Vick. It has 4 nights and during that time makes two full runs of all of the shows. Wednesday and Thursday are one full set of shows and Friday and Saturday are the second full set of shows. This is its 22nd year.

I also helped out my friends who were in NV with strike and then attended the cast party. It was fun. It got broken up by the police within 20 minutes of being there, but we later regrouped at a secondary location and I didn't end up back at my place until about 5am. Damn I haven't had that much fun in years! And body shots are a lot of fun to do. *looks innocent*

Yesterday was the start of Quadfest and my friend BJ won the chance to do a 30 minute set of her music to open for the main group that was performing on the quad. She's got a beautiful voice and her songs are amazing. She write's them herself. She also did an excellent cover of Dashboard Confessional's "The Best Deceptions".

Today was the Junior Closer Look Open House on campus. My friend Patrick's younger brother Adam with his mother came here since he's interested in Mechanical Engineering. I gave them a tour around campus and talked with them for a while. It was certainly nice to see MaryAnn (Patrick and Adam's mom) in a situation that wasn't resulted from insane drama. She's one of the only mother's of my friends that I've ever considered like a second mom.

Also cool today was that Quadfest had an old fashioned picture taking booth on the Quad and I got my picture taken with Max and Tom.

Well that's all for today but I'll leave you with the picture that was taken of us:

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Monday, April 12, 2004

Life is good

I don' t know what it is but I'm in an incredibly good mood lately. I'm not talking about the super cheery, "I'm having a great day" kind of good mood, more the "I really like my life and am happy with it and the people around me" kind of good mood.

I think it may be due in part to the fact that I'm getting into a routine of going to the gym on a regular basis (2 times a week, 4 times total thus far, but its a start).

I think it also has to due with the fact I'm making some new friends and hanging out with them. From my side of things, everything seems to have worked out for the best with Tim and we are really settling into being very good friends, which I think we always were, its just now there's no dating portion to it. I've also really started getting to know Max and he's turning out to be a really great friend. We seem to share a lot of similar as well as complimentary views on life and the general questions of morality.

Things just feel like they are on the upswing and that my life is starting to calm down and not be so incredibly hectic and stressful. It feels like I'm able to once again begin to control my life and reduce the chaos and restore order. It's often felt, in the last year, that my life was spinning out of control and away from my reach to make things right.

I'm also really looking forward to the spring. The perennial season of rebirth and beginnings. Its like I'm exiting a tunnel I didn't realize I was in, that I'd been there for so long that I felt that it was normal. Quite simply I feel great.

Thursday, April 08, 2004

Odd Dream

I had the weirdest dream last night.

In it I was back in high school. It was the final semester of classes. It was actually, I think, finals week. The problem was that I hadn't been going to classes more than once or twice the entire semester. I had to go to classes because of the finals and I was really, really worried that I wasn't going to be able to pass and then I wouldn't be able to go to college.

The scariest part is how real it felt. The dream blended a little with concious thought and I really and truly thought I was failing high school. It was quite unsettling.

I really wish dreaming came with a manual. :-P

Still Friends

Well the good news folks is that the breakup went as well as any breakup can go, and everyone has been very supportive of me through all this.

Also good is the fact that Tim and I are still very good friends. After a little time to himself to deal with this, he said he would like to remain friends and I absolutely agreed. So no one has to worry about any kind of awkward situations because the two of us might be attending or anything.