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The Grouchiest Blog Post

Hello!

This post is literally just Grumpy Lydia complaining. If that sounds miserable, congratulations! You have my full permission to click away now. If that sounds like something you wouldn't mind reading, please enjoy and/or suffer through this list of Lydia's Miseries.

  • I was on vacation in Italy all last week, which means that there are many lingering tasks that have not been completed.
  • My flight was delayed on Monday, which means that I missed class, which has led to me being even more behind. 
  • Housing selection was yesterday, and I am trying to force myself to come to terms with the fact that I'm pretty much definitely going to be living alone next year, which will contribute to my depression next year and makes me feel lonely in the present.
  • There are just, like, a lot of lingering thoughts that I cannot find the words to write about. 
  • It is cold and wet and sad outside, which means that a Self-Imposed Walk to Help With Lingering Sadness would probably just make me more sad. 
  • I'm missing all of my rainy day activities at Soka. I want to run to the cafeteria in the rain. I want to go to Starbucks after getting my hair cut. I want to spend an ungodly amount of time in the Barnes & Noble in Town Center. I want to eat dinner at Chipotle and then putter around Sprouts to buy crystallized ginger and decaf flavored coffee. I want to have improbable conversations with other people who are trapped because of the rain. I want my old, boring life back. 
  • I graduate next year, which means that I'll lose my normal life just as soon as I return to it.
Anyway, I'm off to go eat Parisian Chipotle, find a bookstore, drink Starbucks, and generally attempt to recreate the Rainy Day at Soka experience.

Best wishes,
Lydia
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