Re: Why you not bloggin? Ok, fine, I'm bloggin.

hey yo yo hey,

I didn't mean that title in an unfriendly way.

I've just been really really busy lately. Seriously, reading until 4-5am 3 times a week. I've also been working on a project to get the grad students here better funding and I was serving as my friend, Erica's, Karl Rove in her campaign to become the grad student liason to the board of trustees. She won, by the way...WOO-HOOO!!!

What else?

I've been getting closer to my new grrrrlfriends lately and it's been pretty rewarding. I think a couple of them are so much like me, it's scary.

Check it out. I believe that Carolyn, a historian, is my soul mate. I really mean it! When we hang out, we laugh unceasingly. So much that my stomach hurts. Conversation flows like the piss of a drunken man. It's like with you guys! We have the same problems with men. We have the same problem with our breasts not fitting into clothing (we've gone shopping together). And get this--we are to each other the first person we've ever met who can also not burp no matter how hard we try!

I also have become better friends with Juhi, who is in my department. We are critical theorists together. We both rage against the "regurgitation" style of learning to which we are subjected. We bitch about our cohort together. We are both kinda left-wing radical. and haHA! we are both asian, but of different types. She might be my roommate next year.

And there is the 6th Sarah....or maybe she's actually the 4th? Well, I met her 3rd...We've been studying a lot together lately. At the library and on the beach. It's too bad she's in a master's program and thus, won't be here for long. I remember last night we were talking about the lifestyle that ensues after undergrad. It's like life has become increasingly individual. Every day you do everything alone. You have this packed schedule that keeps you busy; you can meet up with friends for lunch and dinner every day, but somehow, everything's still just you, only you, all the time. We are both living alone for the first time ever, too...that seems to figure into the equation. We both try to solve this "loneliness" (is it necessarily loneliness? or just "aloneness" that is not negative in every way, yet creates a noticeable discomfort in life) by mating.

Speaking of mating...I am again (or still? or perpetually) active, but unfulfilled and dissatisfied. But I'm so busy...But I still have needs...yes, the eternal tension.

Was noch, meine Lieblinge?

Haha, so Sarah's in this Nietzsche class, and I have also been assigned much Nietzsche lately. I think I'm really down with him...maybe not on an analytical level because he's kinda inconsistent, but man had some serious issues that I find pretty fascinating. And his stuff is really fun to read...all these little hilarious gems...
I'm actually surprised that I like him so much. In many ways, I think I do a lot of what he thinks people should do...but I want to BE him, too...
--I'm not gonna explain that one.

I'll think of more...and I'll be reading until late, so I'll add it later.
Yes, phone calls are in order soon.

Ok, I have to go to a meeting now.

Bis dann...i mean bis spaeter...
or maybe bis gleich.

monica.