After just 19 days here, I'm planning a weekend escape to my cousin's camouflage wedding. I've got my bus tickets and I'm ready to leave this sometimes suffocating campus for a few days.
University life is too intense right now and I just need to back up so I can get a grip on reality again. I had a bit of a bad experience a few nights ago that left me in pretty rough shape* and I can't stand being in this city for another consecutive weekend after that. I'm angry at a few people, as well as this city collectively. Much like Hannah and I, we'll take some time to figure out living together and things will be peachy after that. But as of right now, Halifax and I have some things to work through.
Somehow, my attempt to relocate reality includes a ring bearing dog in a camouflage bow tie.
Liberal arts might be driving me to insanity.
*Don't worry, I'm ok. It's quite a story but I need some time before I can tell it. If you're too worried about me and you have the means, send me a message or something.
Hearts,
Julianne
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Unobtrusiveness, vegan baking and party Mondays.
People are slowly but surely turning into distinct friend groups and, much like high school, I haven't found myself in any of them but rather on the outskirts of many. I suppose it's a good place to be and there's still a lot of time for this to change but there are advantages to not having a super defined friend group at this point. For example, I can feel out who will and won't annoy me come a few months from now.
If people annoy me after a week then I can drift away and no feelings
will be hurt. Bam, I can be around the people who are worth it in the long run. Another perk is that because I'm only one person and I don't have a posse, I'm competent at crashing parties and other social events. It's not particularly hard to socialize with some people for a while when you have no obligation to stay for a particular amount of time. My high school experience was pretty devoid of parties but the skills of finding a group of people to prevent me from aimlessly wandering during lunch have paid off. I think that I fall into the female category of 'chill bro' because very few people have ever been offended with my personality or presence. I'm pretty unobtrusive.
Yesterday I made vegan baked goods with my cool vegan friend Catherine from next door. She's really cool and we made friends with people in the kitchen who were cooking massive amounts of Kraft Dinner and eating it out of the pot. I've decided that vegan baking is better than normal baking because the batter can be eaten without fear of raw eggs.
This strange phenomenon happens here on Mondays. Due to the FYP program only being four days a week and no classes on Tuesday, Mondays become a party night. I went to a brief, awful party last night where there were about thirty people in a double room and most people were absolutely hammered by 9:30pm. However, I and all the other journalism students on campus have four hours of journalism on Tuesdays so I must come to terms with being one of the small fraction of the campus to revive themselves every Tuesday morning and go about business as usual except more lectures and pressure than usual. I feel like parties inherently don't work on Mondays so I've come to terms with it.
Hearts,
Julianne
Yesterday I made vegan baked goods with my cool vegan friend Catherine from next door. She's really cool and we made friends with people in the kitchen who were cooking massive amounts of Kraft Dinner and eating it out of the pot. I've decided that vegan baking is better than normal baking because the batter can be eaten without fear of raw eggs.
This strange phenomenon happens here on Mondays. Due to the FYP program only being four days a week and no classes on Tuesday, Mondays become a party night. I went to a brief, awful party last night where there were about thirty people in a double room and most people were absolutely hammered by 9:30pm. However, I and all the other journalism students on campus have four hours of journalism on Tuesdays so I must come to terms with being one of the small fraction of the campus to revive themselves every Tuesday morning and go about business as usual except more lectures and pressure than usual. I feel like parties inherently don't work on Mondays so I've come to terms with it.
Hearts,
Julianne
Friday, September 6, 2013
King's and Frosh week: The balance between classy and trashy.
I don't know how this place doesn't have a reputation for being a party school but it's probably because it's only the first three days of frosh week and a few big parties a year that are super insane from what I've heard. Now that we have launched into the 47 book reading list, things have quieted down significantly, such as the residences being filled with people reading in silence instead of intoxicated people yelling about philosophy. However, it's now the weekend so there will probably be more shenanigans.
My building and floor are nice but living with Hannah is a bit wearing so far. We are opposite in the ways that I love academics and she loves socializing. It works out in a friendship but living together we're going to find some clashes every now and then especially because of her occasional diva fits and she sometimes feels I'm annoyed at her when I'm really just introverted. I don't mind having people in the room even if I am sitting in the corner doing mostly my own thing. I also can't read when she's in the room because she is constantly unsettled and I need a chill reading environment. We'll reach an understanding eventually for living in the same room. I love her to death but living in this proximity to her will be a learning curve for both of us. It'll all balance out eventually and I'm not worried about it.
I enjoy that Allan lives in town. He lives in a dorm style room on the top floor of the building that's the highest point east of Montreal and the owner of the building let the top floors turn to anarchy, essentially. He loves it and it's also a nice place to get away from the sometimes suffocatingly small campus of King's. Allan is the bro I need to be chill and also fix anything technology related that I need to set up. He's a nice constant to have in my life.
I've found some really cool people so far. I've also found myself in a multiday argument over the pronunciation of the word 'bagel' with one guy because he's convinced 'bagel' is not said with a hard 'a.' Considering that my school is about 75% people from Toronto, there are many people to back him up. I feel like one of us needs to emerge victorious but I'm unsure of how to settle this.
Hearts,
Julianne
My building and floor are nice but living with Hannah is a bit wearing so far. We are opposite in the ways that I love academics and she loves socializing. It works out in a friendship but living together we're going to find some clashes every now and then especially because of her occasional diva fits and she sometimes feels I'm annoyed at her when I'm really just introverted. I don't mind having people in the room even if I am sitting in the corner doing mostly my own thing. I also can't read when she's in the room because she is constantly unsettled and I need a chill reading environment. We'll reach an understanding eventually for living in the same room. I love her to death but living in this proximity to her will be a learning curve for both of us. It'll all balance out eventually and I'm not worried about it.
I enjoy that Allan lives in town. He lives in a dorm style room on the top floor of the building that's the highest point east of Montreal and the owner of the building let the top floors turn to anarchy, essentially. He loves it and it's also a nice place to get away from the sometimes suffocatingly small campus of King's. Allan is the bro I need to be chill and also fix anything technology related that I need to set up. He's a nice constant to have in my life.
I've found some really cool people so far. I've also found myself in a multiday argument over the pronunciation of the word 'bagel' with one guy because he's convinced 'bagel' is not said with a hard 'a.' Considering that my school is about 75% people from Toronto, there are many people to back him up. I feel like one of us needs to emerge victorious but I'm unsure of how to settle this.
Hearts,
Julianne
Friday, August 30, 2013
I can't fight this sentimental feeling anymore.
I'm all packed.
Which is weird to say because it's been two weeks of work, including most of the last three days, to get me to this point. I didn't realize how much junk I owned until I filled the back of a van with stuff and my room still doesn't quite feel as empty as it should.
I feel closure that I didn't think I'd feel. I've done the things on my summer bucket list and I'm ready for 'the big city' of Halifax and 47 books between now and April. Bring it.
I'm ready for new adventures and new challenges. I'm ready to be around copious amounts knowledge. I'm ready to lived in an ivy covered stone building with Hannah in a room that will probably be a cozy shrine to Monet, Beyonce and hot beverages. I'm ready for reading three hours a day. I'm ready to meet the likely colourful characters of King's grad class of 2017.
I'm having a cliched 'first day of the rest of my life' feeling. But that's probably because all my stuff is in boxes, I've spent the past few days saying goodbye to nearly all but half a dozen people in my life for a minimum of a few months and I need to hang on to something other than sadness. I'm hanging on to the fact that I'm moving towards what I want to do, what is going to lead my life in the direction I want and feel it should go. I'm confident that I'm going the right places and I appreciate when I can feel certain towards anything anymore.
I've always felt that I would take Journalism in university. I'm not sure if it's the field I'll end up in but wherever it leads I'm sure I'll make the most of it. The school and the program itself will take me on crazy adventures, not to mention whatever comes after it. For the first time in a long time, my excitement has overtaken my fear about the future. It's a nice change; I hope it sticks around.
Hearts,
Julianne
Which is weird to say because it's been two weeks of work, including most of the last three days, to get me to this point. I didn't realize how much junk I owned until I filled the back of a van with stuff and my room still doesn't quite feel as empty as it should.
I feel closure that I didn't think I'd feel. I've done the things on my summer bucket list and I'm ready for 'the big city' of Halifax and 47 books between now and April. Bring it.
I'm ready for new adventures and new challenges. I'm ready to be around copious amounts knowledge. I'm ready to lived in an ivy covered stone building with Hannah in a room that will probably be a cozy shrine to Monet, Beyonce and hot beverages. I'm ready for reading three hours a day. I'm ready to meet the likely colourful characters of King's grad class of 2017.
I'm having a cliched 'first day of the rest of my life' feeling. But that's probably because all my stuff is in boxes, I've spent the past few days saying goodbye to nearly all but half a dozen people in my life for a minimum of a few months and I need to hang on to something other than sadness. I'm hanging on to the fact that I'm moving towards what I want to do, what is going to lead my life in the direction I want and feel it should go. I'm confident that I'm going the right places and I appreciate when I can feel certain towards anything anymore.
I've always felt that I would take Journalism in university. I'm not sure if it's the field I'll end up in but wherever it leads I'm sure I'll make the most of it. The school and the program itself will take me on crazy adventures, not to mention whatever comes after it. For the first time in a long time, my excitement has overtaken my fear about the future. It's a nice change; I hope it sticks around.
Hearts,
Julianne
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