Compos Mentis

Summer and School

I have seemed to lose time when at college. While I was a vampire, time simply seemed to expand in order for me to be able to pursue Latin, Japanese, Calculus, and my various writing pursuits along with working out. Coming back, though, I have suddenly remembered how much time being around people takes. Social interaction is a skill that I shall have to relearn. Suddenly I am faced with vocabularies that are above the fifth grade level (though you would be hard-reckoned to find fifth graders who were as vulgar as my fellow proletariat) and with people who actually understand what I say. It is an odd experience. Don't get me wrong, my co-workers were not the most refined or nice people but they were not completely bad. It was a good experience for me- trying out the new sleeping system, hanging around people who were different from me in nearly every respect, and enduring 8 hours of working a night, every night, even when I really, really, didn't want to. On the other hand it was kind of liberating. At college, the main interaction that goes on with my friends is relationships. In such a tight nit group, gossip travels around faster than sound, light, and bad news. For some reason, good or bad, I seem to project a stable influence, so people come to me and tell me their problems. Often, I get both sides, and keeping both could be very stressful. I would worry about both sides and hope against hope that my advice would not be terrible influence. Soon enough, I was caught up in it myself. But after months not thinking about anything that had to do with these interpersonal squabbles, I find that I rather miss being involved. So this year I'm going to make a few changes. I'll give advice, but with the premise that I am not responsible for what happens as a result. Mostly I'm just going to relax, figuring that relationships are pretty much going to be or do what they are going to be or do no matter what I say. And if I ever have the need to fulfill my own romantic desires, then I am definitely going outside the Honors Program. Otherwise, it would just get complicated, and I don't think I can handle it.

posted by Emmett @ 23:21 4 Comments

Update!

Yes, I've taken far too long to update. No, I didn't make it to the library at all over the summer. The reason for this was my job, which I shall not describe here, save the hours it required me to be asleep, namely, the hours in which anything useful can be done. Yes, I've finally lived my dream; I lived the life of a owl. Except for the whole catching voles thing. Let me just say, it was harder to get used to then I thought it would be, and, strangely enough it was even harder to get back to sleeping normally (at least what constitutes normal for me) than it was to get into that sleeping pattern in the first place.
Anyway, I'm back, basking in the glory that is high speed internet, and wondering if anyone is still reading my blog. I'll put up more later when I have something interesting to say and time in which to say it.

posted by Emmett @ 09:51 3 Comments