migblog

for once, while at cal, i actually miss southern california.

the cool night breeze is blowing in through my window. it's a clear night; i can probably see all the stars if i go up to the roof of the apartment building and have a fantastic view of the bay, the city, and campus.

it's also blowing in someone's dessert from downstairs, and someone's shampoo from across the building.

i kind of miss joshing around the block at orange with the superfriends and playing porn drinking games. we sure have changed since middle school, when i still remember mikey having long hair, to the one point in our final years of teenagedom when we all realized that the next big thing to happen after our graduations was attending each other's weddings. for a while now, i've missed going crazy with nate, hugging carie, listening to mikey ramble on about his favorite musical groups, seeing mooni give us all incredulous looks akin to the lovechild of "what the fuck" and "aw hell no," driving around town with megan, or calling up braverman and finding out for the umpteenth time that he's changed phone numbers.

it will be a nice two weeks when i get back to southern california.

i will finally get to reunite with ryan, whom i haven't seen in close to two years (the last time i saw him was the night i left for college). and i'm hoping to god that things haven't changed, or at least, if they had, for the better.

i'll also be attending my good friend michelle's wedding. (yeah, she's my age, and i love her to death.) i think it's pretty amazing that she's already found her someone. i'm happy for her.

it'll be one of the few times that i'll be looking forward to going to the beach again, maybe hanging out with some berkeleyans while i'm at it, watching my worlds collide. if ever my high school friends and my berkeley friends meet up with each other, i'm sure they'll all be in cahoots to do something incredibly practical to me. and no, i'm not being paranoid: i'm being optimistic.

orange county will be one hell of a place to be in, especially since no one will be out of finals until one month after i get there. and when i have to go back to berkeley, everyone gets out of school, and i have to go back up here to live the life of an underpaid, underfed, underappreciated student.

i'm looking forward to home-cooked meals, satellite television, disneyland, capistrano, corona del mar, newport, huntington, and ventura, hollywood in all its glory, the starbucks literally a block away from my house, old friends, good friends, awkward high school silences, the block at orange, hanging out at south county, san diego, drinking games, nate's house, dogs, eye doctor visits, driving at three in the morning, my own bed, not hearing the girl next door have really loud sex (as much as you think it's hot, it's actually pretty annoying), roscoe's chicken and waffles, carie's apartmentmates, downtown disney, lounging at the ritz-carlton laguna niguel lobby and mezzanine, people i never got along with, books, beer, my family, laundry, and of course, having my own room.

but first, the last days of instruction and two weeks of finals.

and it's time for me to declare the major. oy.

posted by Open Source Food @ 10:32 PM