I love college.

As I settle into my dorm and college life, I am immensely pleased with the way things are going. A year ago I remember thinking that going to St. Ed’s was just a dream and was never attainable. Now that I’m here, it’s absolutely exhilarating. My Social Justice Living Learning Community (LLC) is absolutely wonderful. I feel very blessed to be around such determined, giving people. Eating a Kashi dark mocha almond chewy granola bar, courtesy of my awesome roomie, I’m sitting here anticipating all this year’s happenings. I can’t wait to meet everyone else and really get the year started. Austin is the bomb dot com and I know that the possibilities are endless.

Most of you know how much I love Uganda and the people there. Well one of the girls from my LLC contributes to this program called Compassion International. It is so dank, it’ll blow your mind. Forget about the ads you see on the television. This is a legitimate program saving kids around the world. If you feel like your life is empty and pointless, maybe looking into this organization will show you how wonderful we all have it and inspire you to help others.

Lots of Random Stuff.

With only a few days left before I depart for St. Ed’s, I am trying to spend time with people I really care about. It’s hard saying goodbye, and hoping you will see them again some day. Reality hurts when you realise it might not happen. Although, I am excited to meet new people and make new friends, because this kind of change is definitely a wonderful thing.

My electricity went out in my house so I’m at my wonderful Aunt and Uncle’s for the time being. Apparently my service provider has left many households throughout Texas electricity-less. And they don’t know when the problem will be fixed. I guess it’s time to channel the Joey Tribbiani in me and eat everything in my fridge.

I also had Burger Island for the first time today and it was divine but I could only eat half of it. The monstrosity of that burger was more than I could handle.

I was reading an article on the phenomenology of aesthetics, and it was really quite interesting. I think my favorite part of it was when the writer brought in the thoughts of Sartre and other philosophers, like in this quote:

“Perhaps Socrates’s mission is to make the world safe for ugly people. Isn’t everyone a little ugly, one way or the other, at one time or another? Who is truly beautiful, all the time? Only the archetypes can be truly beautiful.”

My nerves will be the death of me, I know.

I have exceptionally great friends. Last night was fun until a certain point, where the evening kind of fell apart. A certain incident from a certain movie made a certain person uncomfortable and felt the need to leave. It was upsetting to us all, and it made me feel like a horrible friend for not realising that I should have, could have, stopped it. After we got passed our terrible friend capabilities, we had a great time with pizza from Addison, laughing attacks for longer than ten minutes, first impressions game, and good ol’ life talks. Yes, friends are grand. It’s sad that I’m just now belonging to a new group of people, and I’m going to be leaving soon. Very sad indeed. I wish school wasn’t in the way because I could spend a lot more time with these wonderful people, instead of getting taught useless information in a dodgy manner. College will be spectacular. Real classes with real information. Aaah, relief. Speaking of college, the parentals and I are going to visit St. Edward’s next weekend! I love Austin, so so much. And the weekend after is when the Invisible Children roadies and former Ugandan child soldiers will be staying at my house for three days! Exciting happenings here at my house. The Invisible Children Screening is March 4 at 6 pm, Naaman’s big gym! Don’t forget. Flyer coming soon!

I had an amazing, odd dream that I was at the Invisible Children in San Diego, and I made friends with all the new interns immediately and we all were working together and planning extravagant, magical lobby days for the summer. Man, if only it came true. I can’t wait to hear back from them. The anxiety is stomach-twisting.
Speaking of IC, I have a meeting at Senator Cornyn’s office about IC and signing onto the LRA Disarmament Bill. I’m ecstatic! This will be my second meeting with a political figure to try to get this bill supported and passed. Shout out to Tiana for getting the meeting!

My father just told me that my car wreck earlier this year was 100% my fault. Even though the person didn’t have their headlights on at 10:30 pm and ran off after striking the right side of my car, it’s my fault, because I was making a left turn. Interesting conclusion, insurance people.
Family problems stink. It’s worse when it’s completely out of your control. I just pray, pray, pray that things will work out.