Congealed Time

I kinda just lazed around all day today. My friend Chloe came over to use my wall adapter and while she was working on her paper, I set out to making a physical manifestation of our list of simple things to do before the year is over.

Now that it's all official and everything, we should probably get started.

• Spelunking in the tunnels below the Student Center.
• Venturing to the top of both the 5/3 bank building and Patterson office tower.
• Dropping in on our micro-lab friends at Western Baptist in Paducah.
• Playing Spades. Lots and lots of Spades.
• Taking a trip to Joseph Beth.
• Perusing the eccentric aisles of YuYu's Asian Market.
• Eating at Bangkok House, the mysterious Thai place in the basement of Subway.
• Swinging by Red's doughnut shop and Chong's in Paducah.
• Ordering Take-out from Jinjin's.
• Grabbing coffee at Common Grounds.
• Making a stop at Atomic Café (whatever that is).
• And enjoying a meal at Panera Bread

By no means the final copy, the picture above was my experimentation with making the list look even more intense than it already was.

So then Chloe got an email about a movie night flyer that she had to make. I already had the gimp fired up, and thirty minutes later:
Voila!

I don't get much opportunity to mess with graphics work anymore. It was refreshing to get to spend some time messing with it today.

Trying Something New

I know in the past, I've been something of a downer, what with my discouraged conversation of changing majors and transferring back to Murray, but I think I'm passed that. Maybe it's the fact that I'm taking a class that I absolutely love. Maybe it's because I've got excellent friends. Maybe it's my distance from Haggin Hall. Whatever the case, I'm genuinely happy with my present situation.

That's not just some advantageous my-life-is-sunshine-and-butterflies statement either. I mean, I'm still sucking pretty hard at physics and I still face my fair share of conflict now and then, but for whatever reason, I seem to have finally adjusted to life here at UK. I guess that's as good an explanation as any as to the recent dearth of posts on this site.

I think much of my problem with college has been that I spent my first year concerned with proving everyone wrong and maintaining old relationships as though nothing had changed. This, as you may have guessed, was, is, and forever shall be a mistake. This isn't to say that I don't attribute value to everyone I've been friends with over the years, but rather that I'm willing to let some of those interactions be what they were rather than turning them into funerals by keeping their corpses around. I've still got people I talk to frequently but seldom see, and that kind of relationship is a blessing. There are others, though, that I've recognized a need to let go of. I still care about these people, but at the same time, preserving meaningless connection is just going to make us hate each other, and I'd like our recollections to be fond. I'd sooner reminisce with someone in Wal-Mart than avoid them.

And I guess that's all I have to say. I'm where and when I need to be. This site has always been a sort of emotional shunt, and at present the excess is happiness.