I feel like it has been a really long time since I posted a
blog post and since it is my traditional night shift, I'm gonna write
one. I'm not going to guarantee it will be particularly good, but here
it is.
The winter
always has me feeling like I want out. Out of here. Out of Ohio. I want
to get in a car and drive. Anywhere. Some people call it wanderlust,
but I just think it's because I get bored to easily. I'm two years into
school and I already want something new, but then again maybe I'm
nineteen years into life and want something new. I always have this
desire to be spontaneous, but being in the Honors college with a bunch
of organized homework nerds (sorry guys), it never really happens. Going
to movies takes a weeks worth of planning. We have a social network
profile to just plan dinner. So anything unplanned is unhappening.
However,
we did have a tiny moment of spontaneity this weekend and went the
park. Only in Ohio can you play in the park at 5pm and then loose
control of your car on the ice of the driveway of someone's house at
2am. It was a really good time though. Swings can make any day a
success.
I guess
being bored is better than last semester. At this time last semester I
was freaking out about everything, but when you're bored you aren't
really stressed. I don't know which is better though, stress or apathy.
The semester is going by fairly fast, with us being in Week 7 already.
This week marks the 3rd full week we have had of school. Two holidays,
and three snow days. I'm getting sick of the snow, I want spring!
February
always seems to be the month where everyone seems different. Everyone
is sad. Maybe it's from lack of Vitamin D, it is winter in Ohio.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a thing. It happened last year too,
and in high school. It's nothing new, but every year it's still a let
down. It's like were all chugging along just fine and then February hits
and everything goes downhill. I think I just get a little disenchanted
by everyone. It's sort of like I get used to them all one way, and then
in February all of their faults seem to emerge. But that's life, and
your friends are your friends, you get them when you like them and when
you don't, or else you would be a pretty crappy friend. Sometimes I
think about how the people I spent the most time with, I didn't know for
the first 18 years of their lives. It's sort of like walking in after a
movie has started and trying the figure out the plot. You missed the
set up, and now you have to figure out what happened when you weren't
there.
In other less metaphoric news, I got two
CDs in the mail today. I've been waiting for these albums since
November so I was pretty pumped. I've been listening to them all day. So
with all my credibility, here is my review.
Run
River North, the group consists of
Korean Americans from the San Fernando Valley. They're sort of a
rock/folk alternative indie type group. They're sort of a Christian
band, but I didn't know that until I was about 4 songs in, and I was
already hooked. This seems to happen a lot, Sleeping at Last,
NeedtoBreathe. As long as the title of the song isn't something like
"Enter Jesus" I'm good with the genre. My favorite song on the album
is probably Foxbeard. I also really like Growing Up, Monsters Calling
Home, Fight to Keep, and Beetle.
The
Family Crest, another band I sort of stumbled upon, is an orchestral
rock indie band. They have really cool instrumentation in all of their
songs. The band itself is about 7 people, but then they have another 100
or so people on the album with them playing everything from the guitar,
to organ, to saxophone, along with a bunch of choir members. Favorite
song on that album is Love Don't Go, which was already on one of their
EPs and is probably the best known song. I also really like There's a
Thunder, Howl, and the bass part in The Water's Fine.
Noelle
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