9 C South

I was just thinking about how much I miss Florida. It seems so weird that the last time I went I was 16. I am beyond excited to be going to France this summer but I definitely miss me some Palm Beach. I am often reminded that the sale of the condo has helped pay for me to go to school in Chicago. It is a bittersweet trade. I love going to school in Chicago, I wouldn't trade it for anything but I really want to be on my balcony in Florida watching a storm roll in over Lake Worth. I want the ocean. What I always miss most is the feeling of walking into the air-conditioned rec-room after spending all day at the South Pool. I miss the stupid Floridian decorating at the condo. I always day dream about one day having enough money to buy a condo on Singer Island. I doubt that will happen, with me and my poetry and art-making, but I can at least think about it. I've actually already exhausted the subject of making art and writing about my 16 summers at the Seawinds. I haven't done anything on the subject in nearly two years though...maybe I can bring it back? Actually I did something last semester but it doesn't count because I hated that class. I really want to paint again. And I miss sitting by the pool doing watercolors.

To Do

1) I would like to do an independent study to count as an Academic elective in which I study the biographical information of poets. There is an argument as to whether biographical information should be taken into account at all when studying poetry. I am personally fascinated with biographical information and find it incredibly fascinating as contextual information. It doesn't change the way I would look at a poem, but It is important to me to know that poet as a person.

2) I would like to draw a comic about one night at the very beginning of first year, sitting outside the 162 building while people smoked, when a homeless man approached us and asked what kind of meeting we were having, if it was a prayer meeting? Parker then invited him to join hands with all of us as we said the Our Father.

3)Damn it, I am going to buy a canvas and paint over spring break (all the four-day-weekend that it is) AND I'M GOING TO PLAY GUITAR!!! I miss playing guitar.

YAY!!!!

The past two weeks have been great for many reasons. Among them:

1) I'M GOING TO FRANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!! May 22-June 6 !!!!!!! I've been waiting 7 years for this (since I took French I in the 8th grade).

2) I have written more poetry in the past two weeks than all of last semester.

3) I regained my paper-writing ability. Paper-writing used to come easy to me, then it just sort of stopped. But with my essays for Lit Survey and my History of Ideas paper, I'm back.

4) I just feel so much more like myself lately.

It is sort of weird to write these things on a blog, but to recognize these changes in my life is very important.

yeah, that is all I have to say at the moment I suppose.