| | "what's the point - of all this pointless proximity - if you won't talk - take me for a walk - through a little story
til I get to know you - I ain't gonna show you nothing - wordlessly - whatchoo think this is? - you think that that grin - gonna get you in - where you wanna be?
do I have to stand under your little cloud - just to get near you - baby can't you help this little girl - not to fear you - why don't you just talk - take me for a walk - through a little story
and tell me - why should I keep you - if you won't keep me company?"
~ Ani Difranco : Company ~
Today was fabulous... I just want to run up to everybody and hug them. Ok, maybe not EVERYBODY, but you know... :)
At the start of my Women's Studies class this morning someone suggested we hold class outside, so we all piled out of Bessey and sat in the grass beside the Red Cedar River. It was kinda hot but soaking in the sunlight was great, and MSU's campus is so beautiful. We had a great discussion about Marxism, patriarchy, our experiences as women (and as guys with perspectives on women, to give the three males some credit). It was just so cool. In that class there's such a camaraderie... we have these amazing group discussions and I actually speak up all the time in there. I feel really heard and connected there... and a large part of me thrives on feeling that way. So yeah, great start to the day.
Once we left there I walked from the river up to Grand River... did some perusing at the used record store. I was hoping to find one of Ani DiFranco's newer albums used, but they are amazing so no one was silly enough to sell them back (damnit). Well once I got that idea in my head there was no stopping it... I wandered down to CD Warehouse and ended up buying two at full price... hehe. Oh well, my one and only expenditure for this week, hopefully. Anyway, after that I walked back down Grand River to my Sociology class, where we finally got some crap cleared up about this mystery paper we have due, and I'm feeling much more confident about that... so yet another load off of me.
Finally I got back home and had to take off for my 2nd week at Ele's Place. It went really well also, I was quite happy. We had eight kids tonight, but there's also five facilitators, so I don't feel as much like a babysitter as I did last year. Plus all of the kids are great... even the one troublemaker is charming in his own way. There's one little girl in particular that I feel a connection with... tonight during activity time she wanted to draw my picture, it was cute. I feel so much more comfortable with my co-facilitators this year too... I dunno, it's just nice to feel more like I belong; more like I'm able to make a difference.
On the way home it was just me rocking out to my new Ani CDs... which is what I'm doing currently as well. I dunno. I guess it doesn't sound like that much of an amazingly great day... but it was. I was just feeling very friendly and optimistic and full of energy... talking to random people much more than I EVER do. Finding myself humming as I walked.
It was just one of those days where everything seems right in the universe. Where you can't imagine yourself wanting to be anywhere but where you are. Where every insignificant thing seems fitting, and right, and satisfying.
Someone tell me how to bottle this mood, I'd be rich... :P |
| | Posted 9/22/2004 10:07 PM - 20 views - 0 comments
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