A lonely homecoming?
I just had a long internet conversation with my sister, and she revealed to me that a good number of my friends might be absent for the entire summer! Ms. Kachurek, it seems, will be in Italy, and Ms. Ellis appears to be searching for occupational opportunities in the vicinity of NY. My sister herself claimed that she was searching for a way to meaningfully occupy her time in New York-- And I don't know what David Tyler's plans are, but if he's going to be spending another year in Valdosta then he's probably going to be busy from the beginning of August-- which means that I'd only get a month with him, if that.
I dunno. I had this image of coming home and hanging out with everybody... I really need to keep working on The Silence! Being meaningfully occupied is the only way that I can be happy! I can no longer rely on simply being a member of a happy group of friends, because so many of my friends are making attempts to meaningfully occupy themselves!
My sister talked about traveling the world and working with human rights organizations... Reason # 3,569 that she's cooler than me. I'm not saving the world! I have this weird compulsion where everytime I see someone meaningfully occupied or doing something noble, I immediately ask myself why I'm not doing it. This, I think, is not a healthy impulse.
Well, I suppose there are activist elements to my fiction... Or at least, there will be by the fifth novel in the series. Did I mention The Silence is the first in a series of seven?
Yeah, I have this problem where I cannot think except in epics. It's an issue for me.
I dunno. I had this image of coming home and hanging out with everybody... I really need to keep working on The Silence! Being meaningfully occupied is the only way that I can be happy! I can no longer rely on simply being a member of a happy group of friends, because so many of my friends are making attempts to meaningfully occupy themselves!
My sister talked about traveling the world and working with human rights organizations... Reason # 3,569 that she's cooler than me. I'm not saving the world! I have this weird compulsion where everytime I see someone meaningfully occupied or doing something noble, I immediately ask myself why I'm not doing it. This, I think, is not a healthy impulse.
Well, I suppose there are activist elements to my fiction... Or at least, there will be by the fifth novel in the series. Did I mention The Silence is the first in a series of seven?
Yeah, I have this problem where I cannot think except in epics. It's an issue for me.
posted by Nate at 5:11 PM
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Listen, if everyone's spread out, it just means one thing: road trip.
Or even better: train trip.
And I'm still working on finding a cheap flight over to London while you're there.
i know i don't exactly "live" up there anymore, but for my part, i don't think i'll be able to make it to cleveland this summer either. the first half will be spent taking classes here in gainesville, and the second half will be spent coincidentally and extremely fortunately with the aforementioned "ms. kachurek" in rome. but if any trips make their way down to florida, i'll be here until june 27th, bored out of my mind.
nate- i wish i could be home for your homecoming! i miss you and would love to see you. you know what you should do instead? come visit me in urbania sometime in june before you leave. ryanair? eh?? i don't know. it probably won't/can't happen. but i'll be home mid-august and i certainly hope someone will be left to hang out with when i get back. even if just once. and if not, i am forcing either madeline or my sister to drive me to some of you, since i am lame and i have no insurance.
-laura
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