Ups and Downs

Blogs about life can easily turn into blogs about how life sucks. Blogs about life can also turn into yet another place you have to put on a happy face and pretend that everything is alright. I strive to be somewhere in the middle- honest but optimistic. I think I'm fairly pragmatic, but it's a good habit to seek out the light in a situation. Have you ever seen/read "It's Kind of a Funny Story"? I have not read the book but I enjoyed the movie a lot. The topic of teen depression is handled in a really interesting way and people's reactions to Craig represent how friends really react to each other. Anyway, the word pragmatic is in that movie and I don't know that I had heard it before then. 


For example, I had written this detailed and wonderful post about the social anxiety I have been experiencing this semester. It was tasteful and wonderfully relatable (if I do say so myself). Unfortunately, the Internet in the student center didn't save and I clicked too quickly and lost the post. Internet boo.


I got a letter in the mail from my dad. Yay. That guy is great. Seriously. I realize the "World's Best Dad" paraphernalia is a little cliché, but it would fit perfectly. Lifelong Yay.
The barista in McConn crafted a dove on the top of my Cafe Latte with vanilla. Artistic yay. I highly recommend this drink as a stepping stone between "big people coffee" that is, the kind you brew at home if you are without one of those fancy K-Cup machines, and the "frilly frou frou" drinks like a half-caf no whip mocha soy venti latte. I also made that up, so for any of you who speak coffee, please correct my grammar. I understand that some people really do only drink soy- you are off my judgmental hook. 


I have a roommate for next year. Housing yay. It is raining outside but not the fun kind of rain that is my favorite weather. The soak your bones and then freeze them kind of cold rain. Freezing self boo. 
Spring break is still a week away boo but spring break is only a week away- yay!
See what I mean about life from 2 perspectives? 


I have exactly six hours and forty three minutes until the library closes. 
Yesterday, I sat here for a few hours and did (almost) all of my fine arts paper about the IMA (see previous post with lots of pretty pictures) and then read in the student center for two hours. 
Now, I am back here. I'm still trying to find a sweet spot of study habits. Is that normal? It's February, after all. There is one table in the student center where I usually stake out. I don't want to be "that one girl who always sits there" but it's like having my own office. People know where to find me and, maybe, when finals are rolling nearer, people will not be upset at me for taking that table because it's "my spot". Does that make sense?
Even if it doesn't make sense to you, I appreciate you letting me get it out. You're pretty great like that.