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Another State of Mind (and Body)

Alabama, my new "Home Sweet Home".

What can I say? It has been inevitable that I would live here since childhood, it seems. But sometimes it is hard to accept the fact that I live here.Don't get me wrong, I really love everything about this area, but leaving all of my friends I have had since elementary school (in many cases) is posing more of a challenge than I would have initially thought. I can't complain one bit, though: I am living with my entire family (first time since freshman year of high school), I am more excited about school than ever in my life (quite sad, but whatever ), I have already met a cool roomate/classmate/business partner, I attend a great true-to-form-preach-on-hellfire-and-brimstone Southern Baptist church that has just accepted a new pastor, and have founded a profitable (so far) business.

Sweet Home Alabama (you just knew I would find a way to plug that into this blog, right?)

Also, Kurt is to blame/thank for me writing blogs littered with parenthetical punctuation. (He recommended a book that taught me the value of overused parentheses.)

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I am glad I have friends. Not just any friends, but friends that are funny. Seriously, I would have to guesstimate that 70% of my friends really have a good sense of humor, and if they don't, they make up for it in the category of  being  funny by default. This whole greatfulness of my friends thought came into my mind this weekend. I was on a Geology field trip, which sucked ace btw, when I heard the kid behind me cracking some of the stupidest jokes. while the girls to my right pretended to laugh.

Example:

"I mean it would be sooo funny if we gave them (random people outside of bus) Dr. Paxton's (our professor) phone number! He would go crazy, and have no idea how that happened! HAHAHAHA! We could invite all of our friends to listen in on the conversation on the phone! We could even invite our friend's dogs! YES!"

That is as close to verbatim as I can get. I know what your thinking, I exaggerate, maninpulate, stretch stories for more comedic appeal. True, but today, I am leaving my usual tomfoolery behind, and am just sticking with the truth, for this truth is truly funnier than something I could make up.

 Also, while I was on the trip, with many people I do not know might I add, I was asked something that was really funny. I don't even really know how I felt after I was asked this question: "Do you really like to read a lot, or something?" That is verbatim. The question was posed by a random ZTA freshman, I never got her name. I suppose she asked me this mainly because I had my nose in two different books while on the bus. That was our entire conversation the entire 6 hours on the bus. Taken aback,I had to explain why I would rather read, which i don't really like all that much, than just sit there. I thought about going into how I didn't really know anyone on the trip to talk to, or that I forgot my iPod, that I was tired of listening to her and her sorority sisters babble about guys falling in love with them and breaking their hearts on the first date, or that if I just sat there and listened to the Dane Cook wannabe behind me, I might jump off of Turner Falls when arriving in Davis. I ended up sputtering out "Yes, I love reading", instead. What a nerd.

Thanks, friends, for not being dumb.