2010.09.08 Text

  1. Look at me, I’m a college blogger

      I’m halfway through my third week of classes here at Boulder.  Surprisingly, the days are moving quickly, almost too quickly.  Nearly all of my classes are holding my interest. Not to sound cliche, but I’m already feeling like I’m learning things that are going to help me succeed and progress as both a writer and as a person.

      I’m waiting in the hallway before Intro to Creative Writing, possibly my favorite class so far.  Every day, I’m supposed to write for at least 15 minutes in a journal for the class.  I have free range to write whatever I want—poems, narratives, personal notes, various scribblets, anything.  It keeps me on my toes, I think.  The things that come out tend to be either a bit awful, or a bit interesting.  I’m primarily built for journalism, so I’m trying to reacquaint myself with fiction and poetry, and bring myself somewhere where I can manage all of it (afterall, I’m an English major).  Hopefully I can think up a good enough premise for NaNoWriMo and make something worthwhile out of it (We can do this, J.D.!).

      Most of the work I’ve been doing for my classes have simply been reading. I think I’ve read more work of philosophers in the last couple weeks than I have before my whole life.  I’ve been missing out!  I’m definitely being challenged in a lot of ways, and not only scholastically, either. It feels nice.

      I’m working on carving a niche for myself when it comes to social life… I’m slowly making more new friends, and getting more acquainted with the ones I’ve made already, and joining clubs and such. My roommates are really interesting people, and I certainly consider them friends as well.  I lucked out ending up with them.

      I miss everyone in the Springs terribly, but thankfully visits and other opportunities to see them (NDK this weekend!) don’t seem too few and far between.  If you’re reading this… I’d appreciate a visit or a call or a Facebook post or even a letter.  Let me know if you realize that I’m gone.

      I feel like I’m doing pretty well so far. I’m not completely overwhelmed, but I have a healthy amount of stress that’s keeping me going.  My financial aid has finally been sorted out, and that’s a huge relief.  Nearly $5000 in grants will do that to a guy (I’ll worry about the loans later).

      I know you’re probably sick of seeing me write this (when I do post), but I hate writing general posts about what’s going on with me.  It makes me feel like I’m too lazy to write anything more interesting than my various going-ons. But at the moment everything seems to be overlapping in a way it never had before.  Hopefully this leads to some good posts!

      But class is about to start, so blogging should probably stop.  I should try and post more often.  Someone get on my case.