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September 06, 2006
The advent of the year of solitude
The strange truth is that, by living by myself, I have started to become the person I always wanted to be. My apartment is metiulously clean. I am a great student, who is (for the first time in her life) spending a good amount of time reviewing the class notes for that day. I make my bed everyday and never let dishes sit out unwashed (shocking for those I have lived with). I rent movies for my own enjoyment and watch them alone. I spend hours in bookstores, lusting after books, studying, and hoping that no one talks to me. I know this sounds depressing, but it is something that I have always wanted - to be content and happy to be alone. At times the solitude is painful and sharp, but it is beginning to take on nature of a down comforter that I want to surround myself with quite frequently.
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What movies are you watching?
Posted by: funke at September 6, 2006 12:44 PM
Have you watched Season Three yet? I am longing to re-enact funny Gob lines/moments with you.
Posted by: heidi at September 6, 2006 05:25 PM
I've only been in Boston two days, and I already wish I were less alone. In fact, I'm off to see if Laura & Heidi are in right now - if they are, it'll be my first visit.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at September 9, 2006 04:33 PM
call me shallow, but I hate being alone. Unmitigated Linnea is not a good person to live with.
Posted by: linnea at September 9, 2006 07:51 PM
Okay, everyone, now I've got (Well)-Dusted for the Millenium stuck in my head...Howe Gelb crooning "Alone.....alone...." to some very Good, Bad, and the Ugly-sounding guitar riffs. Anyway.
"Dusted got dumped by what he thought he knew.
Now he sits slumped and doesn't know what to do.
Dusted gave away some important peace
And now he sits here completely incomplete.
Alone. Alone.
Sitting with his skin all outside in."
~"(well) DUSTED (for the millenium), Chore of Enchantment, Giant Sand
Posted by: funke at September 10, 2006 08:32 AM