can't win 'em all
oh, bears. roll on.-----
artists in resonance rocked the house at the west coast a cappella showcase on friday. gina's solo was first (it's raining men), followed by mine (under the bridge), followed by rosette's (hey jude). it was awesome. i am so very proud of these people i sing with, and so glad they're my friends.
we got mad compliments, too. today someone came up to me while i was in line for the second show and said, "you guys really shouldn't have started the show yesterday. you oughta be in the middle of today." it made me smile real big.
lots of potential locked up in all of us... what's it gonna take to unleash it to the world?
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friday was great. in fact it was one of the most fun fridays i've ever had, and it included work and writing and more writing.
there was also a great time spent with my little bears, cindy and ben, who finally got to meet each other for the first time after i told them way too much about each other already (her: he's from out of state? he's better than us!; him: she looks totally cool, i'm gonna facebook her). it was great. we had indian food and coffee. it was a buffet. good times.
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it makes me want to not leave but i think i have to. i don't want to stay in this place any longer than i really do. if need be i'll stay here another year, maybe, tide myself over and pad my savings account, but berkeley is a place where i feel i've given all of myself but surely not felt the same.
i've made tons of friends who have urged on my staying here, and it's not helping since they're all buoyed by the fact that the past three years have been so memorable and eventful that another semester or year would be just as, if not even more, amazing. but is it right for me? i have this gut feeling that it's an in-betweener place. berkeley's 100,000 residents don't count students. and maybe for good reason.
it's a great place to experience college but it's not the best place to find out you're growing up and growing up fast.
it's tough to swallow the fact that i'm departing yet three years from now i'll have a class of people who know who i am. simply the fact that they have the chance to make all the mistakes i never did makes me so jealous of their circumstance. if they only knew how much i would give up to do that... alas, like everything in life, time can't go backwards, and you have to take what you can get.
it's that same thing i said about being in the band: we end up having to make do than we actually get to do.
and for now, making do seems okay.
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i've been so tired recently. i have no idea why.
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recently, miguel's diet has consisted of peanut butter, rice, chili sauce, and various sundries. (the items mentioned were not consumed together.)
most of it was bought pre-cooked (ie, ordered to go).
this saddens him deeply as he feels he ought to be using his mad cooking skillz more instead of buying his food from thai noodle for the umpteenth time in the week.
this saddens him very, very deeply.
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whoever invented juice is a genius. seriously though. think about it.
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