errance

I feel like I haven't been in my apartment at all this past week, been at the beach or out and so on and so forth...So, as a result, I'm actually staying in tonight, and seeing the mess that has been accumulating in my apartment! I live with a boy, it's bound to happen :\ So I'm feeling a bit domestic tonight, going to do a little cleaning (which is soothing to me).

Hung out in central park again today...laid out and read for a while with Vimes and our friend, Wildkeeper to SG land ...I feel bad sometimes, I think I drag my friends into my oblivion sometimes due to my current unemployment! ... Although, we were plotting possible entrepreneurial opportunities today, though, which made me happy. But for right now I've gotta get the bills paid, so I gotta get back in my game! It'll happen.

Anyway, this may be the longest blog I will ever attempt to write, but i've got thoughts. My friend left today for Africa - She texted me a goodbye (Her exact words: See ya soon bitch) So sweet.
She claims to have left to try to make the transition from college to the "real world." Saying graduation and education was that part of her life, and this will be the current part of her life. This comment fucking baffles me...Here are my thoughts, and hopefully this makes some degree of sense.
I graduated from college not long before the summer, gypsied around a little bit- tried to figure some things out. This "graduation" from college was a difficult transition for me, and for my friend apparently as well - I don't like the terminology, "transitioning to the real world," though, because the real world is not defined by work, money, power, or following bills and stimulus packages and all the politics....but maybe just by being devoid of shelter? In this respect I can understand wanting to get away for a while and be on your own. But moving on from your education and graduation? Can you ever really graduate from an education? I don't know if that makes sense.
The real world is and always was all around, regardless of college, age or position, it is just a matter of perception, maybe. I guess I'd rather my friend take off on this trip thinking that it's no longer where we graduated from or what we graduated with, but maybe what we are graduating to?You can't necessarily learn by listening and absorbing and studying, I generally get now that I, myself am beginning to learn by the choices of conscience, and unfortunately, often, the choice to avoid it...think maybe I'm getting a better education outside of the classroom. I hope she takes this trip not as an opportunity to get away from it all, but more as the opportunity to gain something a little deeper...

Oh well, probably too heavy, but I that's about it.