There's Probably A Country Song That Should Go Here

[masterofmidgets]

In high school, I knew a lot of people who hated where they lived and couldn't wait to get the hell out and as many states away as possible; from what I can tell, this is pretty typical. But I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now. Maybe it's just that I spent my whole life in the same state, in the same town (went through a hell of a lot of houses though), but New Mexico is my /home/. I like California, and I love Stanford, but I hated leaving, and I only did it because NM doesn't have a school good enough to make me stay.

I love the way the mountains look at sunset and the way the desert smells after it rains. I love seeing hot air balloons in the morning and hearing Spanish being spoken everywhere. I love our psychotic, evil, combative, /ugly/ un-green plant life and the way people seem to think cacti=pretty yard. I love Old Town and the really ghetto parts of Albuquerque and our suburbs in RR and the really tiny ranching towns out in Bumfuck Nowhere and even the pretentious art jerks in Santa Fe. If it's every a remotely viable option, I'd like to spend the rest of my life living and working there. There are a lot of times, given the kind of stuff I want to study and the work I think I'd like to do, that I think I'll never live in NM again, and that drives me crazy.

Which is basically a tl;dr way of saying that I don't usually get homesick until right before I go home, and I'm going home next week, and that isn't nearly soon enough right now.

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[estarial.livejournal.com]

Well, New Mexico is kind of ridiculously gorgeous. I loooove Santa Fe, but especially Albuquerque.

D.C. is interesting. On one hand, home is where my cats are, and my cats are in D.C.. I love living in a big, famous city. People, events, and opportunities come to me. I love being immersed in politics and the general awareness of what's going on in the world that goes hand-in-hand with living in D.C.. On the other hand, I'm not really an East Coaster. I'm very low key, low stress, laid back, which is more stereotypically West Coast than East Coast.

I'm going to miss you, :( You better come visit me in Toyon next year, or else I'm going to break into Naraja (Azia Kim-style) and drag you over.

[masterofmidgets.livejournal.com]

DC's a pretty neat place - I know my parents really liked living there. And of course I'll drop by Toyon to come bug you (assuming I don't get lost on the way)!

[estarial.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Pulling an all-nighter, or just still awake/up early?

[masterofmidgets.livejournal.com]

I don't know why I'm still up! I mean, the last week or so my sleep schedule's been all borked because of stress/all-nighters, so there's that, and then I started reading something interesting, and found a new artist I liked and went on a downloading kick...and the next thing I knew it was 5 in the morning. Oops?
But clearly I am not the only one, ne? What's your excuse?

[estarial.livejournal.com]

Spanish final today at 12:00. And I have to turn in an entire quarter's worth of work that I didn't do, literally. So far I've bullshitted three compositions, but I still have a lot of work to go.

This is somewhere around the fourth or fifth all-nighter I've pulled in the last seven days. So. not. healthy. D: