~Friedrich Nietzsche
Would it be pretentious of me to say I love Nietzche? Is it pretentious to ask? Either way, I have already gone down the road of pretense so, I'll just say I love this quote by FN. It really captures my life to date.
I am taking a quick break from schoolwork to update my blog. I fear that if I don't do this now I won't get to it this week and I can't have that when I have been doing so well! So, this may be another short one, but there is something to be valued in brevity.
Last week was Thanksgiving break. We were off from school the entire week. Sounds heavenly, no? No. Under different circumstances it would have been great, but the great tsunami that is the end of this semester was only beginning at the thought of this break. You know how they say, before a tsunami happens the oceans rears back/recedes. Another saying that captures this is "the calm before the storm." Well, Thanksgiving break was the (not so) calm before the S storm that is these next three weeks.
I ended up working most of the week. Mostly doing and transcribing interviews. This weekend I have been working on the two projects that I have looming on Monday and Tuesday. I have not even begun the one that is due on Wednesday, but I'll get there. It's a mad dash, and I am worried that my legs have atrophied. The bad news: I am going to be hating life for the next couple of weeks. The good news: life is good. I have a loving family, great friends, and a pretty awesome boyfriend. So, even at it's worst, school doesn't cancel out all the things I have to be thankful for.
There were (at least) a couple of bright spots this past week, though: [1] Many of the days during this break were simply gorgeous. On Thanksgiving morning I took an hour long walk and just basked in the pulchritude of Go'ds creation. It helped me to stay grounded. [2] I got to get some salsa dancing in this break. It was good to return to the dance floor. I enjoyed seeing my friends, but i am getting rustier by the moment. Also, I don't know if it is that, school, something else, or some combination thereof, but i am not as "in" to it as I was before. o_O What's that about?
However, I agree with my friend FN (now, it is not only pretentious of me, but also highly presumptuous of me to refer to him as my friend); Life is a dance. School at this moment is like the most complicated casino move that exists. It has me all tangled up and it looks impossible. I may suffer an injury or two in the process, but I'll make it to the end (and probably never want to do it again! lol). But i will continue to dance my pen across the pages (actually my fingers across the keys #digitalage [I did that hashtag for you Andre]) until the music ends.
