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Monthly Archives: February 2012

On loving things. And by “things” I mean “The Appalachian.”

29 Wednesday Feb 2012

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Tonight I tried to remember what it’s like to have fun.

Okay, I’m over-dramatizing if I say I never have fun. But I can’t remember what it’s like to have a life that revolves around fun. And relaxation. And friends who aren’t also your coworkers.

In broad strokes, the upsides of my life are more about professional satisfaction and comma-splice victories and complimentary letters to the editor than they are about that particular brand of carefree good times most college students have mastered.

These days, my life blurs together, because it all happens in the same places. Walker Hall. Anne Belk Hall. Office. Library. Repeat. Continue reading →

The times I saw that your heart was just like mine.

20 Monday Feb 2012

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Once I went to the Titanic museum, a tourist trap if there ever was one, and came to the exhibit with water that mimicked the temperature of the Atlantic in April. I put my hand in that cold water, and I knew it was supposed to make me think about how awful it was to plunge into water and freeze, and I felt nothing.

Then I kept walking though that same museum and came to the part where you were supposed to walk up different “decks” of the Titanic, each of which imitated the ship’s incline at different points of the night. This was supposed to be the fun part, and there were kids scrambling around everywhere, and I stood tilted on those wood planks and I cried. Because I knew people died on the Titanic, but I never thought about the fact that they slid off of it. I never thought about the fact that they must’ve been afraid. Continue reading →

You are more than someone’s other half. You are whole.

14 Tuesday Feb 2012

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I think sometimes we use relationships as a shortcut to happiness.

And yes, it would be easier to be happy if everything was glossed over with that warm, heart-squeezing feeling that comes when things are really good with someone.

It’s not that I think that’s a bad thing. I don’t begrudge it of the people who have it. Continue reading →

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