life, love, and facebook
Seperated
For those of you not on Facebook (but given the group of people I know, i doubt anyone reading this isn’t) or at least for those of you who don’t check it religiously:
So after a little over 2 years Zach and I agreed we might be better off just being friends. It’s a little weird because it’s not like there was any major thing that brought it all crumbling down. More like just a lot of little things that piled up until it slowly broke. I’m not totally sure how I feel about it all. I think it we’re better off this way but I don’t know because I still really like him and will miss a lot of things about us. And every time I remember that we’re not together it makes me really sad.
And I’m not really sure what to do with myself. It sort of feels like a whole bunch of things in my life are changing on me all very fast. As much as I welcome and expect growth and change it all feels a little overwhelming to have everything shaking up at once. But maybe it’ll do me some good.
Facebook
But I don’t want to be all lugubrious on here… So back to the topic of Facebook. I came across this little essay someone wrote this morning about how we’re seeing a social class divide between Facebook users and Myspace users. It’s pretty interesting, although most of it seems obvious if you’ve ever used either of them. It’s weird having gone through college in a time when both of these networking sites were born. Its weird that nearly every college grad my age across the country is on Facebook. Even if you fought it for a while, you gave in to it eventually.
I think what’s especially interesting about it is the fact that just being a Facebook user as opposed to a Myspace user can imply a lot about your background and social class. It’s wierd because I never felt like part of any dominant culture really. I wanted to be part of the alt. culture. I think maybe I was trying to rebel against it and hide the fact that I come from an upper-middle class background for a while. But I guess it’s hard to keep up. Now I sort of feel like I’m just a yuppie in training. And as awful as that sounds I think I’m okay with it.
I guess you can take the girl out of west county, but you can’t take west county out of the girl.
Side note
Just to bring it back together: Two and a half years ago I found Zach on Facebook because he was in my programming class. So I actually have Facebook to thank for a good part of the past two years. Kinda weird.
School’s out forever
And I have photos to prove it. The set is here.
Past week
Joy, Jeff, and Arlene came up for the week and we ate a lot of food. That is pretty much all my family does. We eat, and eat some more.
Since school’s been out: Movies, Music, Food, Drinks, Shopping, Chilling out. And working. I sort of feel like I should have a break between things but it’s sort of been this seamless transition between one institution to the other. But at the same time I sort of feel like I have this momentum going and I’m not sure what I’d do if it just stopped abruptly. If I wasn’t working I’d still be making things. I think I just have to make things, whether I get paid for it or not (although it’s nice that I do). I’ve come to realize it just keeps me sane.
Mid-point
Now that it’s about midway through the year I thought it’d be a good time to check up on those new years resolutions. I get to cross off the top two (graduate and get an internship). I’m sort of still working on that third one. I lost 5 lbs and then gained it back again rather quickly, so still a work in progress.
Still need to get some traveling in this year. Arlene’s tales of Hawaii, Paris, and London have made me want to take some time off even more.
Meeting new people/being more social I think I’m constantly having trouble with. On one hand I think I’ve met a bunch of interesting new people this year, but I think I should be trying harder to be more social and keep in touch with people. Trying to be less socially awkward seems to be a reoccurring theme/goal in my life…
Comforts
Updates
So the birthday on Monday was alright. Riley got me this awesome shirt
and I went out to dinner with the parents, the siblings, and Zach.
The opening for our show was cool. It was fun seeing people from so many different parts of my life all in one place, and it was fun prancing around in my new dress with a few glasses of wine. I think it went pretty well. Photos later.
Tomorrow’s the SOA graduation, which is the only one I’m doing. I should probably figure out what I’ll be wearing for that..
Creature Comforts
Apparently CBS is starting a new American version of Creature Comforts, and I’m excited they’re going to have the episodes all on the site because I can never remember to watch tv. It’s awesome because the original Creature Comforts from like 20 years ago was one of the very first claymation thing I remember seeing and falling in love with as a little kid, which fueled my interest in claymation later on. But it’s also awesome because there’s good characters, real people, and it’s short.
Here’s a part of the new one:
And the old classic:
party party
voila, the senior project, via YouTube for now:
I am now pretty much done with college! Not officially until next week, but I’m done working on stuff for school. it’s a weird feeling to think that I’m not going to have homework ever again. I still feel like I should be working on things even when there’s nothing for me to do.
The Show
We installed our stuff for the BFA show today. It’s cool to finally be putting up my own stuff. I’ve been going to the BFA shows for the past 3 years so it’s neat to finally be in it. Allyson and Heather brought cupcakes and made me a special early-birthday one too! They were tasty.
Anyways, our BFA show opening is on Tuesday the 5th from 5-8pm. If you’re around you should come check it out and say hello. You can have a sneak preview on the BFA Exhibit site we just finished the other day.
Relax
After we finished setting up we went to The Ram for dinner for what is probably one of the last big class outings, where I discovered mai tais are good. And when I got home I laid in the grass and then watched Paprika. Feels good to be in chill mode.
And Arlene is here! I haven’t had a chance to see her yet since I was crazy busy getting everything ready but I’ll see her tomorrow. And tomorrow my sister gets in town.
I want to go shopping so bad.
