2000-09-21 :: 03:25:07

happy days

Soundtrack: Ozomatli, "Ozomatli"

Despite my usual epic-entry nature, I just wanted to make a note of the fact that lately, things are pretty peaceful and happy. Weather's pretty moderate, people are smiling, classes are really interesting -- choosing what I would end up with was really painful, I had too many good choices. (I'm living that TV show "Opposite Sex" in one of my five classes: Women, Magic, and Power. There are about 30 girls, and I am one of two guys. Suffice it to say it feels weird to speak in that class, and even though there are a few really cute girls the prospect of talking to them is shadowed by the inherent sleaze factor.) I didn't feel the newness I sought the very first few days here, but I think I've got it now. I want newness forever.

Thanks to Erik's sporting nature I've got A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius along with a slew of academia-reading (guess what's being done first). I am going to wrap this right quick and read some of that before collapsing.

Even with all of the bullshit and smalltalk and euro kisskiss, I am happy. I can even be happy in that stuff, the everyday stuff that we love to loathe. And I'll venture that that's a good thing. You can be Nick and still live the Gatsby moments now and again (now there's another book I never did finish, shame on me).

More later (or not).

PS: Dave Eggers' amazing piece in the Harvard Advocate makes me happy.