This may sound kind of strange, but I think I needed the election to be over. As much as I loved the campaign, as much as I love the people, as much as I miss it all, I think it all, in some metaphorical sense, kept me grounded in life before college. It’s hard to explain. I still love everyone; I still miss it all to some extent, but there’s just been something different about these past few days.
I’m not sure any of it has to do with the outcome of the election at all. Yes, part of me is bummed Jack lost. I mean, I knew it was basically inevitable, and I know that what we were a part of this summer changed the face of SD politics. But losing never gets easy. Granted, we didn’t lose everything. It’s definitely awesome to be on a liberal campus where everyone has been celebrating since the AP called Montana and Virginia and since Rumsfeld resigned. And my little color coded map of which counties voted down the abortion ban is very comforting.
Beyond all that, the rest of this week has just been different. It’s hard to expalin, but I feel like college has really started. I think part of it has to do with the fact that my friends saw who I really was on election day and found it highly endearing/amusing. (They took very good care of me, followed my directions very well.) But, for some reason things are just really falling into place now. And maybe it just has to do with the fact that we’ve been here for over two months now.
For one thing, the orchestra concert last night was amazing. Apparently, it was the best concert the Middlebuy Orchestra has ever given. And the movie “Thank you for Smoking” is hilarious–especially since it tries to make fun of Vermont, but you’d have to live in Vermont to really get the jokes.
I had to select my courses for next semester, and in the process I realized that an English major isn’t what I really want to do. I mean, I want to write, but I can do that with anything. I’m now an International Studies major. (Technically speaking, it’s a European studies major with an economics minor and a proficiency in Italian, all supplemented by an English minor.) All it means is that I get to take an economics class, and English class, and an Italian class every semester and then get to choose amongst other awesome IS classes or random distribution requirements. I’m excited. On top of all this, I might be making waves. Might. We’ll see. First, I have to finish my paper. I’ll tell you later. All I can say is, how could I have ever known Shakespeare and politics were going to change my life.
Have a good weekend!
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It’s cool to see that your life is going well dude. Definitely cool.
I think I *might* have an idea as to what you mean when you say it’s nice that the election is over. Although it’s going to be weird spending my free time doing stuff that basically effects me and my immediate contacts instead of the whole state. Not to mention the constant low-level stress about the outcome… the break from that is tasty.
3rd paragraph, 2nd sentence, 4th word… what’s “expalin?”
(Seriously though, I thought you revised everything you wrote… don’t you?)
and didn’t we have a theme song at one point?
So give me Coffee and TV
History
I’ve seen so much
I’m goin blind
And i’m braindead virtually…