Sunday, December 24, 2006
 | So being back home has definitely added some levity to life after a crazy semester. Even though "home" is more of a adjective than a noun these days, it is nice to be home (for the time being). The past few weeks were sorta a beat-down. I haven't been that beat up by school in my life, so getting through that was exhausting. Then, the two days post finals were a blur (which added to the physical beat-down, but much better to be beat up by alcohol than by final exams), only to wake up to an email about how I can't watch Garden State anymore...not because there's still some lingering present feelings, but rather because it's a reminder of a feeling in the past that is no longer present (is that an odd sentence, because present could be an adjective and a noun...). Next, I get an early grade back, which only re-affirms me jumping ship from IP law (though one could argue self-fulfilling prophecy). It wasn't a horrible grade, but anything below a B+ lowers my GPA. Then, the delay to get home.... But after getting in, there is a certain levity to being out of the city. All of a sudden, I'm getting creative with my cooking, aggressive about my snowboarding, more serious about fitness, and getting back into a groove I've only found West of the Mississippi. I think I associate Chicago with law school (a very natural association), and "law school" me and "normal" me can't co-exist. I thought I could resolve the dissonance, but fuck it. So, for the next three weeks, it's all about ridin', picking up my guitar, and cooking meals that I haven't even thought about for a long time. Hopefully, after finding this levity, I don't put on any Holiday Weight, or have to deal with some back-log of work for law school that I should be doing when I'm back home. Now off to Midnight Mass (see I'm still a Catholic, I go to church on Christmas Eve) (Oh yeah, don't mock the Mile High Salute when you think you score the game tying touchdown...people lose games that way) |
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