Hello Again

Hey, friends, if you're still there. I'm still alive! I'm pretty sure it has been over a year since I've blogged on here, but I recently got very inspired and want to continue journaling about my life on the world wide web.
I made it to college. I am officially a Macalester Scot and live in a teeny dorm room with a dripping sink and horrific carpeting. But, I've managed to make it look somewhat cozy, I think:

I love my lil corner. My roommate and I get a long pretty well, although it has been an adjustment to not having my nice big bedroom and a bathroom to myself. (I HATE COMMUNAL BATHROOMS THEY ARE LITERALLY THE WORST PART ABOUT COLLEGE OMG)
But anyway, I'm two weeks in and I think I'm doin pretty well. I haven't made a lot of friends but I am joining a literary and arts magazine club and a Scrabble club, which I hope will allow me to meet more people who are like me.
While I'm pretty close to home, I'm still really homesick. I guess I'm just so attached to my family and my house (which we're moving out of, by the way) that seeing them once a week is still kind of not enough. Whatever, I'll get over it.
Here's something that I've been watchin lately that has made me very happy:

MY FAVORITE SHOW + MY FAVORITE SONGS AND MY FAVORITE GIRL LINDSAY WEIR.

I'm nostalgic for a time and place in which I do not live. It's already cold here and it's only September and I miss the warm summer days where I didn't feel like I had to socialize with people that I didn't know. I don't know if any of this is making sense but I had to get it out there.

I'll leave you with some pictures of things/people that cheer me up a lil bit.

I hope that everyone has been havin a great school year!!!!!

(ALL images are from TUMBLR and aren't mine lol)

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xoxoxoxoxoxo
Coco

I Will

a tree grows in brooklyn t-shirt from urban outfitters, given shorts, and converse, y'all
(I loved A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  by Betty Smith and would recommend it to anyone!!)

Lately I've been listening to a lot of ~classic beatles~ tunez and I remember why everyone loves them so much, including myself. They're just timeless, fun rock and roll songs about love and happiness. Things just seem like they were simpler back then in the 60s and 70s. But that's probably not true and I'm just romanticizing different eras because I happen to like that kind of music better than today's music.
In other news, I've been thinking a lot about happiness and sadness and how you can be in a certain situation where you're completely pleased with how everything in your life is going but then you think about other people and how there's so much sadness and devastation in their lives. We all kind of live in little bubbles that separate us from anything beyond our world of communication. I keep forgetting how everyone else's lives are just as real as mine and equally as important and how when I pass someone on the street, they're probably going through problems similar or worse than my own. I really feel fortunate and grateful to have such a cushy and fun life and to be able to pursue my own interests and have all these awesome opportunities. I'm truly trying hard to put myself in other peoples' shoes and recognize that the world does not revolve around me and sometimes I can't get everything I want and yes, life is hard sometimes.

Today was so fun. I slept over at my best friend Peaches' house last night and we had icees and pizza and took a walk at 11:30 pm and it was hot out and we wore cute outfits and it was a really fun time.

aren't we cute?

Then today me and my older brother went to target and bought a bunch of junk food and watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and 'twas great! The rare times when we actually get along are actually so fun and he's awesome. even if we have completely different music tastes.

The heat is finally breaking and tomorrow should be just about perfect to take a walk around the lake.

Have some beatles-spiration: 

(I'm in love with them)

 

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