One of Those Weekends

Dear Michelle:
Basically it is the coolest thing ever that you are learning all these dances. I agree, though - girls don't look too good in blazers, so if you want to look sharp I would suggest going for the Janelle Monae look. She seems to wear tuxedo-type things exceedingly well.

That reminds me though, last Sunday (a week ago, not yesterday), I went jeans-hunting because the two pairs of jeans I have don't fit me very well any more and they're faded so they look sort of crummy when I try wearing them with a nice shirt. Anyway, so I was out looking for jeans, and I had this idea that I would go to Maurices because I've heard good things about their jeans, but they're closed on Sunday, so I went to Factory Connection. They sell mostly jeans, but the thing I noticed the second I walked in was that almost every single pair of jeans in there was really low-rise and really flared. I don't really know why stores insist on carrying mostly flared jeans when they went out of style about four or five years ago. Maybe it's a small-town thing. I also don't really like super low-rise jeans because they don't work too good on my body type and when I wear belts to remedy the problem, they cut into my hips uncomfortably. Anyway, I was in Factory Connection for upwards of an hour before I found a reasonably high-waisted pair of skinny jeans. I like high waisted pants because they're pretty worry-free as far as bending over and belts and everything goes. Plus if you tuck a blouse into them they look really sharp.

I had kind of a weird weekend. On the surface it looks like pretty much every weekend I spend here (homework, sleep, maybe eat, finally finish homework, spend the rest of my free time doing something fun that doesn't require me to leave my room). On Saturday I spent the whole morning listening to music and studying Korean, it was pretty good (You know in City Hunter where Kim NaNa called the prosecutor her Daddy Long Legs? Well I wondered what she was really calling him in Korean, so I looked it up, and the words, pronounced "kidari ajusshi" literally mean "waiting man." I wonder if there's a story behind that). Then in the afternoon I did homework, deep-cleaned my side of the room and folded all my clothes. Stupidly, that evening I sat down and decided to look at a kdrama to watch, because I felt like an all-around productive day deserved a fairly entertaining end.

So what I did is I watched the whole thing in a weekend. It wasn't too ridiculous, I mean it wasn't nearly as long as BBF, but it was a pretty similar story arc and it was ranked just above BBF on that dramacrazy place, so I thought, what the hey, why not. And the truth is, it was pretty unforgettable and tons of fun. There's something about sitting down to a good story and a steaming cup of Earl Grey that's just one of those things that I never want to be too busy to enjoy every now and again. The real problem with watching it so quickly was that it was quite an emotional rollercoaster, so I've spent all Monday sort of emotionally exhausted. Getting invested in stories like that is pretty cool, only afterwards, as you well know, there's a while where you're just really sad it's over, or you're still mulling over the story in your head and you don't want anyone or anything to interrupt you. I had that also with this book I read since I got here, it was called Little Brother, and it was really cool. Really cool stories don't exactly litter the street, so there's always a sense of deprivation after they're over. I think that's why I read my favorite books over and over again. I like to revisit good times.

I don't know about coming home this weekend. I would really like to, but the thing is that I'm probably coming home the next weekend to make sure you girls don't burn down the house while Mom and Dad are gone or something. Wouldn't put it past you. I might come home two weekends in a row anyway, just because.  Then there's always the possibility that Mom and Dad don't go, if the weather doesn't permit it. Anyway, I'll think about it and we'll talk again on Thursday or something when I'm more sure about my homework situation and stuff. I like having empty days in the middle of the hecticness just to get all my thoughts in a row (something about spending a morning alone is really good for getting things into perspective), but after a while even that gets pretty lonely. I need a little ridiculous in my life. Well, I guess there's a lot of ridiculous here, because college students in general just pretty much defy the sensibility of society, but that's just the normal garden variety of ridiculous and nothing like a good weekend in your company can come up with.

This was a pretty long post thing. It's probably because I like talking to people who understand me, and out of all the people here, nobody understands me like you. People. What a bunch of bastards.

-Amy