Sunday blues

Yet again, I've been facing the Sunday blues today... I don't want to go back to work tomorrow, I'm not smart enough to finish my homework by myself, I don't feel prepared for my test this week (which I really need to pull up my grade in that class), and there's been some other personal stuff going on this weekend that's been on my mind.

I wasn't really looking forward to go to the Tech meeting tonight because I still don't really know many people there, so socializing is still an effort, and I don't feel like I have much time this week to dedicate to photo assignments. At the beginning of every meeting, we go through the "mocks" (the previous week's issues of the paper) and critique the photos, and I wasn't really looking forward to that because I wasn't very happy with my most recent photo in the paper (it was posed, not very exciting composition, etc.), so I was extremely surprised to get some nice comments from the other photographers there. It was a very well-timed ego boost. :)

The earlier part of the weekend was a lot more fun - I saw Jarhead on Friday night with the regular collection of roommates and their significant others, and then last night I saw The Squid and the Whale with a friend of mine from high school (plus roommate) who's currently living in Boston, working on her master's degree in children's literature. We hung out for a while at her place after the movie, just catching up on the high school gossip that we knew. The only problem was that we both have the same gossip source, so I'm not sure that either of us really learned anything new... It came up that another girl from our graduating class is trying to put together an informal five-year reunion this Thanksgiving though, and neither of us are really interested in going. We want to know about all of the crazy things that people from our class are up to (which, at this point, mostly means getting married to other people from high school and having kids, although not necessarily in that order), but we don't really want to actually talk to them... A newsletter would be much better!

It's interesting for me to remember who I thought I would keep in touch with after graduation and then compare that list to who I actually keep in touch with now. The number is about the same as what I thought it would be, but the people aren't. It's a little unsettling to realize that the same thing will inevitably happen with some of my current friendships.