Greetings!

I decided to post a personal blog in addition to the political one I have with a friend.  This way I'll have a place where I can rant about all the other crap that goes on in my head, and the only "research" I'll have to do is looking back over what happened that day.

Because...to be perfectly honest, politics are annoying.  So.  Annoying.  I recently had an "epiphany" about myself where I realized that I'm way too wrapped up in the political world, and that it's turning me into a huge tightass, which is not good.  I used to be way more into art, music, and writing than politics, and I miss that.

However!  In an attempt I made to fix this, I discovered that I cannot go a day without discussing politics with whoever will listen.  So I guess I've rather trapped myself into it.

So this blog will hopefully not include too much about all of that stuff.  I want the theme of it to be "what I've learned each day."  Because I truly believe that you add knowledge to your database every single day, you grow because of it, and you apply it.  Even when it feels like you're learning precisely nothing.  

Even if it's something really stupid, like learning that "you should always wash your bowl IMMEDIATELY after eating Cream of Wheat, or else it will be impossible to wash later," or "packing tape doesn't efficiently hold up a strand of Christmas lights on your dorm room wall, and if you try to make it work, they'll fall on you in the middle of the night and give you a night terror."

So to start off the blog, I want to say that I had a really awesome night yesterday, but that somehow, I was disappointed.  I went to a comedy show with friends, and then we came back to campus and hung out at the really awesome coffee shop on the first floor of my building.  And then I watched a movie with another friend.  And all of that was great!

Here's what I learned from this: Often, after having a really fun night out, we tend to look back on it and wonder if it really WAS as much fun as we thought, if our friends were having fun or just pretending to, if it could have been better - and this is a stupid thing to do.  I had a great night.  That's all.  I shouldn't look back on it and feel disappointed, because it was perfectly lovely.  I should allow myself to think, "Yes, that was fun!" and trust that my own feelings are proof enough.

Anyway, there's a pretty sunset tonight.  The weather has finally started to warm up again - I didn't even need a coat today.  Just a sweater.  I'm going to love living here in the warm season, when the trees are green again.  I love nature.  The picture at the top is my castle (otherwise known as Collins Living Learning Center, a really awesome dormitory in Indiana University).  But it's a castle, to me.  It's Hogwarts!

Speaking of Hogwarts...I think I'm going to go read some Harry Potter.  I told myself I wouldn't read that series again for five or ten more years, so it'd be new to me again when I read it, but I can't stand it anymore!  Toodles.