In Between Weekend Getaways

A week has passed by and once again, it's been extremely eventful and sometimes i wonder when I'll stop being redundant but thoroughly enjoying the ride until then.

Coming back from Paris with Rich was a bit tough getting back into the swing of 9 am classes and running the normal errands of a typical student. ESPECIALLY knowing that I'll be going to venice in 4 days, i was quite antsy. Nevertheless it was good times all around. Tuesday night we went out to a bar that supposedly had an open mic where my friend Mike wanted to read at but when we got there it was completely full cuz apparantly some really famous dutch writer was there reading as well. It was too packed, Mike didn't get to read so we left. BUT he did give us a private reading over some greens so that was an experience that satisfied us all that night.

Wednesday was my sexuality class which is always super interesting. We keep having these debates of nature vs. nurture and how society puts everyone into categories but on the other end, could we really still function as a society without categories? Isn't it what defines people? Or do people really have to be defined? We also talk about GLBT groups focus on opening society's minds up to an uncategorical world but they still have to unite and put themselves in a category themselves. So, yes we might not get any direct answers but regardless, it's personally been a great class cuz it's really opening me up to trying to break barriers that society puts on me and it's been a struggle. If you have any input on this debate, please chime in!

Wednesday was also my friend Jon's bday so he had a little barbeque and borrel thing at my dorm. I got to meet my International Student Network group for hte first time since I've kinda been bailing on the other events. It was really nice meeting people from different countries and observing the communication and conversation between us which is a subject we are studying in my Intercultural Communication class.

Thursday I slept in til 2! It was beautiful. I didn't realize how much these 9 am classes are killing me every day but it felt freeing to just be a fatass in bed for a day. I spent the day cooking, reading, and writing my papers that were do after the weekend. For my Dutch Social Policy class I had to write a 5 page paper on anything about drugs. Yes, sounds easy, but what's even easier is finding an old Writing 340 paper that I wrote on legalizing drugs last year. Sweet.