thoughts on a year
Jun. 14th, 2003 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseThings I've learned over the last year:
1. Don't fuss too hard if you don't get what you want--in a few months, you might just look back and realize that it turned out for the best.
2. Having friends to come back to makes the first few weeks of school a whole hell of a lot more fun.
3. There's nothing better than having friends in classes with you. It makes life easier in more ways than I can explain, although your professor may not thank you for it.
4. There's nothing worse, when you're already worried about a paper, than looking over and seeing that your roommate, who's writing the same paper, is doing things in a totally different manner than you.
5. Once it's in your head, the Buffy Musical *will* take over your mind and apply itself to almost anything. And if you've listened to it enough, anything (up to and including finals) will seem like the subject for a song. (yes, I still need to write "Finals: The Musical.")
6. Slash fanfiction is insidious--don't think you can just read a bit and then walk away unscathed. I won't even *talk* about online RPGs.... *shivers* Oh, and Cassandra Claire, from what I can tell, is well on her way toward world domination... and I think I like it! ;)
7. If you need to get somewhere on a time-schedule, make sure you have a very organized person in your group. They'll make life *much* easier. Plus, they always have cellphones, and frequently have the bus schedule memorized.
8. If you mention that someone has a medical condition, theater personnel will trip over their feet allowing you to take whatever in that you need.
9. No matter how smooth it seems in your mind, opening a bag of candy inside your purse never really works, and the skittering sound is a lot more conspicuous than just the sight of a bag being taken out of the purse.
10. History, in it's entirety, is conflicted and ambivalent. This is all you really need to know about it.
There may be more of these later, as I think of them.... This is just the stuff I could remember off the top of my head. Many thanks to Cora, who helped me come up with some of these.
1. Don't fuss too hard if you don't get what you want--in a few months, you might just look back and realize that it turned out for the best.
2. Having friends to come back to makes the first few weeks of school a whole hell of a lot more fun.
3. There's nothing better than having friends in classes with you. It makes life easier in more ways than I can explain, although your professor may not thank you for it.
4. There's nothing worse, when you're already worried about a paper, than looking over and seeing that your roommate, who's writing the same paper, is doing things in a totally different manner than you.
5. Once it's in your head, the Buffy Musical *will* take over your mind and apply itself to almost anything. And if you've listened to it enough, anything (up to and including finals) will seem like the subject for a song. (yes, I still need to write "Finals: The Musical.")
6. Slash fanfiction is insidious--don't think you can just read a bit and then walk away unscathed. I won't even *talk* about online RPGs.... *shivers* Oh, and Cassandra Claire, from what I can tell, is well on her way toward world domination... and I think I like it! ;)
7. If you need to get somewhere on a time-schedule, make sure you have a very organized person in your group. They'll make life *much* easier. Plus, they always have cellphones, and frequently have the bus schedule memorized.
8. If you mention that someone has a medical condition, theater personnel will trip over their feet allowing you to take whatever in that you need.
9. No matter how smooth it seems in your mind, opening a bag of candy inside your purse never really works, and the skittering sound is a lot more conspicuous than just the sight of a bag being taken out of the purse.
10. History, in it's entirety, is conflicted and ambivalent. This is all you really need to know about it.
There may be more of these later, as I think of them.... This is just the stuff I could remember off the top of my head. Many thanks to Cora, who helped me come up with some of these.
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Date: 2003-06-14 03:27 pm (UTC)Thanks so much for sharing your life with me in the open and wonderful ways that you do. You are SOOO awesome! Mom