Move-in week has done a number on my nerves. Last year's move-in was the worst. Living with 7 random girls I didn't know really freaked me out and the night before I went I was so nervous that I gave myself a panic attack. There really was no need. This year's completely different because I have already established friends at school and I know the girls I'm moving in with so there's no surprises. Just a lot to get done. Running around campus to get books, hooking up all my cables, organizing clothes, driving the 40 minutes back and forth to USC, figuring out rush information, meeting up with high school friends to say goodbye for the year and simultaneously getting together with the college friends I haven't seen all summer. It's still a hard thing to say bye to my wonderful high school friends, but it's not infused with the doubt as to whether I'll ever see or talk to them again or whether our relationships will change a ton over the year. I've been through this and to my surprise have stayed close with pretty much everyone I wanted to.
My apartment is lovely. I feel very grown up. What's nice about it is the people I live with are neat, clean, and quiet so I'll always have that study quiet time or the "hang out, relax, and watch movies" time, but I can go out and meet up with my friends who are loud and crazy and will go to parties with me. It's good to have the two separate entities to retreat to one or the other. I went out on Thursday and had a Suite 4002 reunion with all the girls I lived with last year. Stopped by DTD, which i hung out at on many a thursday night last year, and saw some guys I remember and who remember me which was nice. I miss the seniors from there who graduated. They were my favorite, and a great group of guys. I've always had a thing for guys a few years older. It's great to see my suitemates again. They were hanging out with some freshman girls who previewed in our suite last year and ended up deciding to come to usc. It's strange to see them. They seemed so young. And it's not like I'm claiming to be so much more mature or older or cooler, because I'm not. I suppose I'm just more comfortable in my own skin this year and I remember what it was like to be that unsure of myself. I would agree with those who say that one really matures more in the first year of college than any other year. Hopefully I'll keep experiencing new things and facets of who I can be this year.
The more I think about it, the more I want to head toward music design. I can't think of a way to design that is more creative and fun than that. I get really excited at the thought of promoting and creating an image for artists(thank god i declared that advertising minor) and being able to meet that kind of talent. I have 3 more years, so who knows what will come along and pull me in one direction or the other, but for now this new direction has got me ready to dive into my design courses this year. Classes start monday...dang. I look at some people who don't know what they want to do, and it makes me feel incredibly lucky that I found something in high school I can be this passionate about. And college has made me fall into it even more and my love for it has grown and I really feel that this is what I'm meant to be doing. Went to yet another concert at Amoeba last week, this time Rilo Kiley was performing. To my misfortune a really tall guy was standing right in my view so i couldnt see much of anything except the bass player every now and then when he appeared from behind the loud speaker. I wasn't aware of a lot of rilo kiley stuff before the concert, as sadly is the case in most of the concerts I go to see and then end up loving the bands later. It was a good concert nonetheless. The acoustics in there are hideous. Very tinny and the vocals were pretty much drowned out by the strength of the instruments.
I want the rest of the girls to move in and start making our apartment cozy. Megan and I are all moved in, but the other room is pretty much deserted until tomorrow. I'm off to spend the day at disneyland with my family, here's to the start of a hopefully amazing new school year.
I'm listening to the Garden State soundtrack which along with The Shins two albums, Elliot Smith, and Jon Brion has been on constant rotation in my cd player.
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