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Sep. 14th, 2003 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesSince I got my teddy bear here, I've been sleeping better. Is that silly or what? I mean, for crying out loud, I'm 28!
It was very strange on Thursday to be translating a college admission letter and to be able to think "I've written this letter before, damn it, now what's the word I want?" I used to write admission letters for the Prostho program. It's odd how having been out in the working world for five years helps sometimes.
I miss the cats like mad. I'll be sitting here typing and wish Bonnie would come up and sharpen her claws on my chair, even though it drove me crazy when she did it, or that Zoe would leap up behind me and insist on walking across my keyboard when I wouldn't stop typing, or that Galileo would come up when I'm reading and insist on being in my lap.
If it comes to that, I miss a lot of things. I miss being able to get almost anywhere I want to go without having to figure out if there's a bus route that goes there more than twice a day. I miss going to the grocery store and finding things I think might be interesting to try. I miss not having to worry about how much money I haven't got and whether I can really afford to buy fruit this week. And I miss people. Sure, there are umpteen thousand students here, but the presence of people isn't what I miss. I miss people I can relate to.
I'm also worried about these papers I have to write. I haven't written an academic paper in five years, and this is a whole new level of them.
I'll get through it, but today it's hard to do that.
It was very strange on Thursday to be translating a college admission letter and to be able to think "I've written this letter before, damn it, now what's the word I want?" I used to write admission letters for the Prostho program. It's odd how having been out in the working world for five years helps sometimes.
I miss the cats like mad. I'll be sitting here typing and wish Bonnie would come up and sharpen her claws on my chair, even though it drove me crazy when she did it, or that Zoe would leap up behind me and insist on walking across my keyboard when I wouldn't stop typing, or that Galileo would come up when I'm reading and insist on being in my lap.
If it comes to that, I miss a lot of things. I miss being able to get almost anywhere I want to go without having to figure out if there's a bus route that goes there more than twice a day. I miss going to the grocery store and finding things I think might be interesting to try. I miss not having to worry about how much money I haven't got and whether I can really afford to buy fruit this week. And I miss people. Sure, there are umpteen thousand students here, but the presence of people isn't what I miss. I miss people I can relate to.
I'm also worried about these papers I have to write. I haven't written an academic paper in five years, and this is a whole new level of them.
I'll get through it, but today it's hard to do that.
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Date: 2003-09-14 09:24 am (UTC)But not to fear! keep milking the newness of it. Every day is a new thing experienced, a new place, a new store. A silly grocery item, a fun road.
Thats what will make it worthwhile. And anyway, arent most of your freinds and family delocalized now anyway? Mine are.
:)