to move up and down
Maureen MacGregor
I'm still learning
Done with school for the year. Signed the paperwork for someone to sublet my apartment. Found a new place to live. Today was a good day. Now I have time to goof around.
The circle of frienship
I’ve been thinking lately about the cycles and patterns I’ve noticed in my life, particularly about how I have gained and lost friends through the years. I’m beginning to see high school experiences repeated in college, and I’m wondering why this all keeps happening this way it is.
Where did the Quarter go?
11/10/12
Next week is finals week. I have one. For an hour. Monday night.
And now I actually have time to update this thing. I have a lot of stuff to put up.
I think my goal for Thanksgiving break is to finally put together a professional portfolio website. But we’ll see. I’m looking into using 4ormat.com because it is 1) cheap, and 2) super easy to use. Stay tuned.
For a moment, though, I just want to reflect on all of the changes I have gone through the past 10 weeks.
I got a job on campus. It was only 7 hours/week this quarter but it made my days much longer. However, I made some pocket money and I have begun to enjoy working with my coworkers.
I began my role as the secretary of the RIT NPPA this fall. Running (unoposed…) for this position has by far been the best decision I have made in my life since applying to RIT. The responsibility I have taken up has devoured much of my time and sanity this quarter, but through it I have begun friendships with people I not only have great respect for but can look forward to having long lasting professional relationships with. I finally feel connected to my department and to my peers, and it feels wonderful.
However, as a result of all of this, plus 23 hours of school, I have spent a minimal amount of time at home (mostly to sleep and occasionally eat) which has strained my relationships with some of my roommates as well as my old friend base. I don’t really know whats going on with that. If any of you read this, I’m sorry. I don’t dislike you. I don’t resent you. None of this was intentional. And I don’t now how to fix it.
It’s really incredible how quickly time passes and how much you can be confronted with and learn in that time.
6/23/2012
Today was good.
Babysat all morning. Got paid.
Drove down to Bath, where a friend from school lives, because three other friends from school who live in NY drove down there last night to spend the weekend. Words cannot describe how much I missed them all. I felt like the month that has gone by since I’ve seen them hadn’t happened at all and we were just picking back up where we left off. I got a good red sunburn, ate salmon, gossiped, felt like I had friends again.
When I got home, my parents were out and there was just this big brown cardboard envelope on the couch with my cousin’s name on it, but my home address. And the address it had been sent from was Little Brown Mushrooms and I knew that my cousin had bought me Alec Soth and Brad Zellar’s Ohio as a belated birthday present. I thanked her profusely and she said that linking my tumblr to my facebook was dangerous because she saw my post a while ago about this book and just had to buy it for me. I was literally about to buy it like, tomorrow. Just finished reading it. The text is fantastic. Some photos are better than others. The last one is probably the most beautiful. Every single image was taken with front flash, which gets boring after a while. Sometimes it is used better than others. But that last image, along with the text that precedes it stays with you.
Going to bed now.
6/8/2012
I went to Stinchcomb Hill today with my best friend. We packed sandwiches and sat on the grass under a big tree. And we ate, and we talked, and I had my first cashew (My brother is allergic to nuts so before he went to college there weren’t many nuts in my house other than peanuts). The weather was wonderful, sunny and high 70’s, so we were just having a nice time lying in the grass talking. What I love about her is that I can talk to her about anything and that she can talk to me about anything. I’ve known her for seven years, but it wasn’t until about three years ago that we connected. We’ve been more or less inseparable since. The hardest part about leaving Lakewood is not being able to see her regularly.
She said that trees are interesting because they are fractals. I thought that was beautiful so I snapped a picture.
