Introspection
Nostalgia
Or something else? I have debated time and time again to no particular success. Maybe it’s the historic and beautiful campus; or maybe it’s my repressed psychological longing to get back to my inter-school rivalry days by cheering for the football team at Scott Stadium again, singing the good ol’ song to the tunes of [...]
Promises and Disappointments
I heard the most extraordinary love story the other day, straight out of the movies. Like a lot of love stories, the promise of the beginning never quite matched up to the hopes and expectations of everyday life. The farther the distance between the promises made and promises kept, greater the disappointment. My life is a series [...]
Fall break
Fuck. It’s only 3rd week of the semester and i’m already looking forward to Fall Break. It would be a travesty if I don’t mention i’m really enjoying coursework on IR & CP . Things are heating up. A few days of stretching meself in the sandy stone beaches of Port Jeff would do me [...]
School worshipping
That’s how a friend of mine puts it. School worshipping. Schools will always have worshipping alums but what used to beat me is what separated a generic Jimmy Jones school, from schools with a devoted alumni network, say St. Xaviers or Don Bosco. what arouses that kind of worship? Now after 3 months of work, [...]
Premonitions
I suffer from APS. Acute Premonition Syndrome. I see all those middle aged men every other day in streets, in movies, reminiscing with their school and college buddies about college chicks, highs school crushes, all the what should’ve beens and what ifs and I get the blues of APS. I guess it’s inevitable. Sometimes I [...]
