Yesterday, I revisited one of my favorite albums---Cassadaga by Bright Eyes. I was listening to "Milk Thistle" from a different Conor Oberst album and I starting thinking, "Damn, this song is so good," and I love how it's placed at the end of the album and then I thought, "Hey, wait. Isn't there another album that ends on a similar, beautiful note?"
There is. It's Cassadaga and the song is "Lime Tree" and I hadn't realized I didn't have the album on my new computer, so I dug out the CD and put it in my library.
It was like this amazingly important part of my music collection has been missing and now that I have it back, I feel more complete.
So now, onto more interesting things.
The semester is, of course, picking up with papers and tests and whatnot but overall, I'm enjoying school. The most interesting class so far is my creative writing class. Right now, we're working on our poetry portfolios. Poetry is not really my thing but I think I've managed some good work. I'm excited to start on my fiction and memoir. Prose is definitely more up my alley.
My tutoring job is going great as well. I help out after school two days a week in a fourth-grade classroom. It's delightful being around children and makes me miss my little brothers less. I love it when my friend does my nails because the girls in my class are all, "Dang girl, who did those nails?"
I also got Valentine's Day advice from the boys who said I should take my boyfriend to McDonald's and let him order off of the dollar menu. They said to blindfold him, lead him into McDonald's with roses and candles all around and he wouldn't even notice.
"You want a McChicken? Too bad, that ain't on the dollar menu."
So today I skipped journalism class to do real journalism. I was working on a profile of one of the candidates for Minnesota governor. I came into the office at 7. I was supposed to interview this gubernatorial candidate between 7 and 9. It didn't happen. Instead, he called me at 10:30. I bought myself a cinnamon-sugar bagel for the inconvenience. I spent 10 hours in the office. It was quite nice, aside from my oatmeal explosion in the microwave. I think the story turned out well, since it was my first 'profile' and I hope everyone enjoys it.
The rest of my time has been spent watching Dexter with Janelle while researching apartments for next year. I've become quite obsessed with having an apartment with a beautiful kitchen, entertaining areas and walk-in closets. I have this vision of myself having very elaborate dinner parties and drinking wine while discussing literature. In this fantasy, I also have a cat.
Affordable student housing near campus is not living up to this expectation, unfortunately.
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