You've been reading some old letters. You smile and think how much you've changed. All the money in the world couldn't buy back those days.
i realized when driving home last night that i have been back here for exactly a year. a lot has changed. i'm 9 credits away from a graduate degree. i'm back in a place where i don't have a super long commute. i don't live alone anymore. i like being here. is it all peaches and creme 24/7? of course not, and i wouldn't expect it to be.
i re-read high fidelity on friday and saturday (quick read, not quick reader) and remembered how much i loved that book when i first read it. i poured over every detail. it also is attached to a specific time in my life, living in dublin, almost ready to come home, avoiding doing my final work by reading a nick hornby book. it was on the verge of a change in my life. i came home and saw the movie with n the day after i was back.
i guess the point is that the book obviously deals with aspirations and the pull between being satisfied with what we have and avoiding settling and giving up aspiring to be better. i chose to quit my job to go back to school, rightfully so i think. i am excited to be associated with a profession, a group of people who see value in some of the things that i value. will it always feel like this? i doubt it. but the moment is great now.
i think about the things i thought were so dissatrous actually were nothing at all. i don't know.
i'll stop philsophizing now....
anyway. so what else has been up.
i went to shopping (aka, them shopping, me buying a headband...) in pgh last week with a friend. finally went to south side works. nice environment, i don't really have much reason to shop down there, but it was cool to check out and to see. it was a good day.
i have just been sewing and doing some other stuff. reading loads. i cranked through high fidelity and am now reading great gatsby. i don't want to expand my horizons so i'll just re-read books i dig. i explained it to someone i encountered yesterday as it's like listening to your favourite song or album again, that's the way re-reading things is for me, just a familiar nice feeling. (speaking of, did anyone else see that almost famous was on tv last week? i happened to have been checking out what was on via the tv guide channel b/c i am not so into flipping through all the crap and caught the beginning...) i think of gatsby in the summer anyway. back, back to sewing, i have been working on some good modifications and some good other pattern kinds of things. i love having the time now to do this stuff.
work will be commensing much earlier than i expected. i got a call last week that they wanted me to learn some new stuff and cover for someone who will be out the week before school starts. so i am training on wednesday and then working all week the week before school. sadness at the end of my vacation, that's for certain. but money is money and is always needed and appreciated.
so, i love you all and that is all.
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i re-read high fidelity on friday and saturday (quick read, not quick reader) and remembered how much i loved that book when i first read it. i poured over every detail. it also is attached to a specific time in my life, living in dublin, almost ready to come home, avoiding doing my final work by reading a nick hornby book. it was on the verge of a change in my life. i came home and saw the movie with n the day after i was back.
i guess the point is that the book obviously deals with aspirations and the pull between being satisfied with what we have and avoiding settling and giving up aspiring to be better. i chose to quit my job to go back to school, rightfully so i think. i am excited to be associated with a profession, a group of people who see value in some of the things that i value. will it always feel like this? i doubt it. but the moment is great now.
i think about the things i thought were so dissatrous actually were nothing at all. i don't know.
i'll stop philsophizing now....
anyway. so what else has been up.
i went to shopping (aka, them shopping, me buying a headband...) in pgh last week with a friend. finally went to south side works. nice environment, i don't really have much reason to shop down there, but it was cool to check out and to see. it was a good day.
i have just been sewing and doing some other stuff. reading loads. i cranked through high fidelity and am now reading great gatsby. i don't want to expand my horizons so i'll just re-read books i dig. i explained it to someone i encountered yesterday as it's like listening to your favourite song or album again, that's the way re-reading things is for me, just a familiar nice feeling. (speaking of, did anyone else see that almost famous was on tv last week? i happened to have been checking out what was on via the tv guide channel b/c i am not so into flipping through all the crap and caught the beginning...) i think of gatsby in the summer anyway. back, back to sewing, i have been working on some good modifications and some good other pattern kinds of things. i love having the time now to do this stuff.
work will be commensing much earlier than i expected. i got a call last week that they wanted me to learn some new stuff and cover for someone who will be out the week before school starts. so i am training on wednesday and then working all week the week before school. sadness at the end of my vacation, that's for certain. but money is money and is always needed and appreciated.
so, i love you all and that is all.
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