real post! I promise!**take 2
Alright, I'm going to actually post now!Really.
I just need to figure out what it was I wanted to talk about.
There's always the story of the frat boy who though I was a criminal. That was entertaining. But I think it will be way more fun to only explain that it was a misunderstanding involving community service for the Boy Scouts.
Oh! I've been seeing daylight again! I still get really tired if I try to go out much(I think 3 hours is my maximum 'out' time) and my back is not a bit happy with being out of bed, but I have, in fact, been able to see people outside of my immediate family! Yay!
Let's see...I got a credit card. Scary, isn't it? But I want a credit rating when I graduate college, and it gives me nice things for spending money, which I will be when I get my shiny new laptop. Which should be next week-ish.
I am also officially poor for the next year. See above paragraph.
***edit*** This post sucked and wasn't an update. Revised rest-of-post that doesn't suck quite as much:
I have been rather light on ponderings lately, because I haven't been reading many good books and have been too tired to think. Lately, though, I've been wondering about the nature and definition of dormant friendship. It's really a very confusing thing to define. I've reconnected with some old friends lately, and I have to wonder if it can be said that we were friends while we weren't speaking or really thinking about each other. Is a friend someone that you have, previously, befriended? But that would include a few people that I would no longer consider friends because of falling outs, discoveries about their personalities, etc. Does it depend on amicability toward them, then? If I think of someone kindly, when I think about them at all, and have genuine good wishes for them, and would love to talk to them again at some point, are they a friend? If I forget they exist, but would think of them kindly (etc.) if something reminded me of them, are they a friend?
Thoughts, please, my three friends who still read this!
Also, as a random tidbit, I have apparently gotten good at writing nice emails when I really want to call people names. I've had to write a few lately, most recently to a certain snide little man (who is making me do three times as much work as I need to because he formatted something absurdly, and had the gall to fuss that I hadn't formatted it that way in the first place! Just ask Nick how much I ranted about him.) who has been my chief frustration at work for the past three days. So, if I ever write you a very polite email, with no insults or poking fun, it probably means I want to call you names!
Oh, and I got to talk to a current student in the UD PhD program in Literature that I want to get into. She was very enthusiastic about it, which makes me even more excited about it. Apparently I could work part time while there. And there's a nifty Austen class, I'm told. ^__^ Speaking of Austen, if anyone has brilliant ideas of what to narrow my thesis topic down to, I wouldn't mind a bit! (Tasik, you are highly encouraged to annoy JoBu about reading Austen so he can discuss it with me! That slacker.) At the moment I'm planning on analyzing her view of marriage/society, but that's pretty obvious and broad. And if anyone knows a good reason not to choose Dr. Kelly, tell me before October or so!
Well, I'm supposed to be working, so I'll get back to that, but I think this post has improved significantly. Love to all!
posted by Noli at 11:48 AM
