I miss you all terribly. I hope you're having a wonderful Thanksgiving break and that the change of seasons is treating you well. I know we've all been busy, and that probably accounts for the rather dire lack of blog posts, but I would still love to know what's going on in your lives! SO everybody reply with THREE random things associated with your life at this moment. Here are mine:
1.) I am so so so so close to being completely applied to college.
2.) NaNoWriMo.
3.) I have less than a month left of not being an adult. Holy shit. I'm so old.
Now the really important part:
I propose that we each post our favorite word/phrase/sentence/part of the letters we wrote ourselves at the end of Kenyon. (Leah and Rami, not sure if you did this...?) Mine was a collection of "remember what it's like to...", so I've pulled out my favorites/the ones I want to share with you:
"Remember this feeling... Remember the dancing shadows on grass. Remember the deafening sound of gravel... Remember what it's like to sit under a clear sky peppered with stars, to feel the ghosts of laughter and funny stories and secrets and beautiful words (and Christmas past). Remember what it's like to feel cared for... to have people understand you just the way you said it, because that was the only way it could be said... Remember what it's like to feel cliche and infinite. Remember what it's like to feel lonely together."
THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING REALLY COOL AND TALENTED PEOPLE THAT STUMBLED INTO MY LIFE <3
Hey, sorry I've been slow in responding. I have been, as you said, very busy.
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1. I'm currently sick, so my thanksgiving break has been less than ideal.
2. I started preparing for the Chicago International Model UN, and I'm really excited for this year because I'm the director of propaganda in the Chinese cabinet. (don't tell anybody, but I'm gonna try to get the U.S. to declare war on Vietnam again. sh!)
3. I finished Nanowrimo a couple days ago! Woohoo!
I don't have my letter yet because I live much farther away from Kenyon than you do haha. So I'll have to postpone that part.
A note on the fact that we all stumbled into each other's lives:
I recently remembered that the day my mom called me to tell me I had gotten in to the Young Writers' thing was the same day I went to the bookstore to buy a copy of Moby Dick and Infinite Jest. What books were Rami and Logan reading when we were there? #weird
Oh, and good luck with your theater comedy thing, Molly!
Just got my letter: "Stop making excuses and start writing or keep writing (whichever applies)....P.S. Do the blog!!!"
DeleteThat Model UN thing sounds awesome. When is it? We usually go to the one at U Chicago, which is awesome, but because of timing (and because people brought special brownies and alcohol last year) we're going to Carnegie Mellon instead.
ReplyDeleteYAY NANOWRIMO! I finished too :D. I was planning on doing extra, but that really didn't happen...
That message from your letter is perfect.
I want to cry right now. Can we please have another video chat? I'm on vacation now. Please. Please. Rami is in Israel, but we can have another when he gets back. Please. (And we didn't write ourselves letters. :/)
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