Wisdom, snow, love, and summer employment

Michael C. Chen is wise.

I just wanted to put a thanks out to Michael for helping me out with some tough stuff, including whether or not to buy a Wii.

But seriously, folks. I've been dealing with some existentialist crises lately, mainly having to do with the fact that I'm leaving oh so very soon. And Tamar sent out an interesting email the other day commenting on how we are all going to be somewhere completely different in if not the next year, probably the next couple of years! We're so transitional. I think this says some good things about where we are and what we're doing, yes? We have the capability (physical, emotional, financial, professional) to move to a new place, start over, and do very well (most likely). Which is more than a lot of people in this country can say (unfortunately, a lot are stuck with their lot, which often sucks). However, I wonder what we're sacrificing? We have lots of facebook friendships that "last", but are we missing out on the benefits of stable residence, stable friendships, stable emotions? I'm not sure.

On another note, it is snowing like CRAZY right now, and I am happy :) I'll have to soak up as much snow as I can, I suppose, since I will not be counting on snow in L.A. unless pigs freeze over or hell flies (or whatever). It was 55 degrees 2 days ago and now it is WHITE.

Question on my mind as of last night: is there really a difference between being in love and loving somebody? Is it a matter of degree or a qualitative difference? I used to believe in a definitive qualitative difference, but now I'm not so sure. Thoughts?

And I may have found a job for the summer! Working as a cooking teacher for a summer camp :) I hope they employ me... it seems like such a neat gig.

p.s.

www.kingdomofloathing.com

omg, awesome.

Official Decision!

I have officially decided to attend UCLA for graduate school. Woot California! Woot UCLA! Woot graduate school! Woot woot!

Glorious Returns, Question, Small Rant

So I have now finished every graduate school visit I will ever do. At least for the next 6 years or so. Hopefully.

I have also survived another bout of illness- one of the worst colds I've had in years.

While the big DECISION is what's on my mind primarily these days, I have been thinking about something that I will run by you all.

So this person who lives in the same house as I do recently (I guess this weekend? I wasn't in town, so I'm not sure...) had a letter of his opened by someone else- presumably in the house. Said letter was apparently in his little mailbox-cubby-thing that we have in the main kitchen. I guess someone opened it and then left it in the mailbox-cubby-thing, opened. An email was sent out to the whole house about said letter (which I think was some sort of bank statement), asking anyone who knew who opened the letter to email this person and tell them why they did it.

Then, this person posted a print-out on the wall of the stairwell (as he likes to do to make general announcements to the house about things like paying for toilet paper) that was rather scary, actually. He said basically that he wanted to know why someone would do that, hoped it was an accident but couldn't see how that could happen since it was in his box and had his name on it, wanted the person to come forward by Monday at 8 p.m. or he would have to go to the police. He used many words in bold, such as federal offence and illegal and police.

So, here's my question. My first reaction to this was that it was kind of ridiculous what a big deal was being made about it (particularly the letter posted on the wall of the stairwell), but then I started wondering if it actually was that big of a deal. Maybe I'm just a big weenie who wouldn't have called the cops just because... I'm a weenie :) What would others have done?

Also, I may be primed to react negatively to this because this guy kind of bugs me and I think he does tend to make a big deal out of things he shouldn't. Such as the aforementioned toilet paper post on which he makes a big deal of the "financial burden" he has undertaken to buy toilet paper for one of the bathrooms and asked everyone to contribute to him $3 (even though we already paid a main fee at the beginning of the year to buy toilet paper for the whole house and we are supposed to get reimbursed from that for any personal expenses; also $3 will buy you like an entire pack of toilet paper).

Opinions? I have one. I'm never living in a communal house like this again... hehe