What have I been watching?: Brooklyn Nine Nine
What have I been listening to?: If You Were Mine - Ocean Park Standoff
I've moved back into River Falls and started the last year of my undergraduate!
My first week of classes felt pretty underwhelming. I'd been looking forward to the semester starting for a long time but my classes have been a little bit of a let down, and seeming rather mundane. The student base (particularly in my area of study) is so small that it's mostly the same batch of people all over again, in the same drab rooms, going over the same intro material. Someone please explain to me why, as a senior political science/international studies student, I am going over the terms "politics" and "state" again. There are so few courses available each semester so there is zero choice in what I take, its simply a matter of taking everything that is offered in order to actually graduate.
I am glad, however, to be moved closer to school. I'm living in a two-bedroom apartment with a girl who I am getting along with pretty well. I like how I've got my room set up. The room is rather narrow and also has no overhead lighting, but I've made it very comfortable and am happy. I also am glad to now have a furnished living space where I can have friends over to play games and what-not. I've been glad to reconnect with my friends from school, a couple of whom I had not seen for quite some time as they had been studying in Europe last semester. One friend who had transferred schools last semester has now transferred back.
The day before yesterday, I went to Hudson in the evening planning to see Searching at the theater. I pulled into the parking lot and right away recognized someone I went to high school with and hadn't seen in probably a year or two. I jumped out and was very psyched to have run into an old friend, several hours from where we went to school together. Turns out he lives in the area, and has for some time, and I just had no idea. He was going to see a movie with his girlfriend and we all ended up seeing Searching together. It really made my night.
I've of course been enjoying getting back into the swing of things at the gym, and have found that the injury I attained at the beginning of the summer no longer seems to be causing me issues. I did my highest ever squat a couple weeks ago at 135 pounds and my highest ever bench at I think 70 pounds. My goal will be to beat these again this semester.
I've had surfing on my mind a lot for the last few days. I'm really, really hoping that I'll be fully recovered from my injury by winter so I can perhaps go somewhere for my winter break to surf. I've been looking a little bit into Cocoa Beach in Florida, and would also be open to returning to the Carolinas. I would really love to get a bit more experience and eventually own my own board.
Thinking of surfing makes me so happy, and soon enough I'll be graduated and will perhaps have the chance to relocate (if not only temporarily) and have some new adventures. I'm in a really good spot right now.
-G
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