Creativity can't be far behind.

"So far, keeping it together’s been enough." - Stars

Governing statement of my life. The first week of the quarter is always exciting because it’s basically figuring out a puzzle. Where do I have to go? What books do I need? Who’s in my class? What sort of work am I going to be doing on a daily basis? How will my time be managed efficiently? That stuff is fun to me. New notebooks and used textbooks and syllabi seem fresh and interesting. Learning new things is always exciting, until of course you have to start doing the work.

I went into today (the 2nd week of the quarter) with a somewhat-more-drained mindset. My days are kind of like they were in highschool. Get up early, do things all day, go to bed. Repeat. I work at 6 and 7 every morning and then have class until 4:18. If I’m not making a valiant effort to go to clubs (school-related clubs, not night clubs), I’m making a valiant effort to work out. Then I come home and do my homework and din and honestly by that time it’s around 10:30 and I am ready to crrrraaassshhhh. I think I go to bed earlier than everyone else in college and I am just fine with that.

This is all very rewarding and I feel very productive and the spoils of my labor shall surely be enough once those spring quarter paychecks start coming in with nearly $400 (pretty good for a campus job my freshman year I think). However, when it’s dark outside every day when I wake up and the animals are still sleeping and when it rained all day and work was frustrating and French didn’t make sense for the first time in a long time and when I realized that Chem 101 and I have no chemistry and when the Indians beat the White Sox and when every treadmill and elliptical were taken at the RPAC and when people were yammering in the hall right outside my door when I was trying to focus and get some dreading done, I was basically sure that I had already had it with Spring quarter.

Everyday can’t be stellar though I know and I am looking forward to tomorrow and trying to get my football tickets for next year and going to Free the Planet and just generally doing things all day. It beats being bored for sure. I just hope my brain is big enough to absorb most of what’s being thrown at it all the time, not only from the professors and lectures and textbooks and other peers but also from the markedly changed environment that is Spring quarter at THE Ohio State University.

Things sure do get a lot nicer when the sun comes out and it’s baseball season, even if people do tread on my team. So for now, though I’m almost ashamed to say it…

GO SOX!