Comforting Words

After a week like last week and beginning of this week, I needed a day like this. My world is slowly coming back under my  control. Got my History 9E midterm back; turns out my pre and post-exam anxiety were for nothing, as I got a solid A on it. Group presentation for history went very smoothly as well, so that just made my day so much better. Now I just have one more midterm tomorrow and I’ll be done with testing until finals.

I get to spend some quality time with my ACA kids tomorrow night. This was the thing I looked forward to the most in becoming an ACA staffer. I’m the only child, so I never had any siblings to give or receive advice and guidance. I hope I get to bond with them the same I did with my ACA parent last year and establish the trust between us.

Whenever I’m stressed out or feel I’m getting overwhelmed by the world, I have these really weird and intense moments of “zen” or a very profound thought, where on the inside I’m completely calm and I feel I can open a can of whoop ass on whatever I’m about to take on. And so today while reviewing for my midterm the song Swing Life Away by Rise Against came on and I had one of those moments. I just realized since coming back to UCLA at the end of September, I’ve literally cut myself off from friends back home. I barely talk to them, I don’t know what’s going on with their lives, etc. I feel I’ve got a lot of catching up to do once I go back home for Thanksgiving.

I’ve been here so long; think that its time to move.
The winter’s so cold summer’s over too soon.
so let’s pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow.

I’ve got some friends, some that I hardly know.
But we’ve had some times I wouldn’t trade for the world.
We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go.