Friday, October 14, 2005
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Cold are the toeses and tips of the noses, so deliciously rosy they are
When the breath kisses frost, and the leaves are all tossed by the wind.
The desire is to snuggle all warm and all toasty,
and the fireplace is crackling, and the oven is roasty,
and you walk through the brisk autumn air on a whim, without care.
Your jacket is light as your step in this season,
and soon you'll be sparkling and caroling, with good reason.
With a hot mug of cider and a pup at your feet
and your family surrounding you. Everything's complete.
And now, a rant:
It's just not true
Case is what you make it! It is a hard school with a lot of Work, and if you don't want that, then please don't come here. The social scene is not spelled out for you, but if you peek outside your dorm room once in a while and make the slightest effort to talk to people, you'll find an amazingly fun and diverse world of not only diversions but of lifelong friends, new interests, concerts, cultural and philanthropic events, and even beer.In other news, I had a wonderful evening last night with some of my Case (well, MSASS, CIM, and alumni) friends. aliashope and her roommate and I did a crossword puzzle and had some dinner and girlie talk. Then their other housemate and hope's husband came home, and we all listened to some music while we did a jigsaw puzzle. Yes, we enjoyed it, and no, for us it didn't have to involve booze or stripping (well, we'll talk about the stripping later). aliashope is one who went with me to Nine Inch Nails (and Stomp! a few weeks ago and Blue Man Group and the cities of Toronto and Niagara Falls years ago) and wants to take my geeky ass clubbing sometime. Mostly, I think it would be fun. She's so cute all gothified.
Tonight, I'm going to do maybe a little grocery shopping, some more music and maybe puzzling with MY roommate, and LOTS OF SLEEP! I'm having a sleep shortage of late and not doing much to fix it, so Saturday morning will be a dead one. Then I think I'm going to a corn maze (Maize Maze!!!) in the afternoon.
I'll repeat something that's been grokking around in my head and in snippets of my comments on others' blogs lately:
To love someone you must understand him, and to understand someone you must love him. Completely.
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Comments (11)
That--in blue--is a good poem.
I thought I had love with a girl I didn't understand...but she turned out to be needy, and then we broke up.
I understood _some_ parts of people without loving them, like terrorists...does hatred count?
your poem started to prepare me for winter! :)
case sounds like a tough school that isn't right for everyone. but, if someone isn't happy, why don't they transfer? i don't understand why ppl stay places when they aren't happy there.
love.... it takes a lifetime to understand a man and you have to love them in spite of that
and here it comes
I read your poem out loud and it was fun. So I read it again.
I loved a man for 30 years but I never understood him.
You left such a thoughtful comment--thank you.
Ms. Em -
Case: I only know of four people that graduated "on time". The others either are pass 4 yrs because they couldn't do 6 classes a semester (but they still work hard) or eventually either fail out, get suspended, or just quit (depression). You are a little different because you've worked hard all the way from k - to college grad. A lot of people at case never had to - they weren't challenged because they are "geniuses." Case has a little different way of doing things than say any type of pulic school (k-college). True, I didn't go to Case, but I thought about it & could have, even though I didn't - but I did join in the Medievial Society, The Gay, Straight, Bi Club, the cast at Rocky horror for two years, Anime club and of course all the marathons. So yeah - there is plenty to do, includig the opposite sex. You, however are the minority of those I meet, that not only finished what she set out to do in a timely manner, but also worked extremely hard and had lots of fun doing it.
jerjonji - I double agree! if you don't like it, go somewhere else. However, I know I get my hopes so drasticly high on somethings that the idea of changing them or doing something else just isn't plausible. love/understanding = lots of learning and even then you can love someone & accept them, still not understand a good bit of them.
Completing a BSE at CWRU in four years is the accomplishment of which I'm most proud. And, sure, I knew a few who didn't manage, but the ratio was about 40%, maybe.
Now to alter that definition...
A lot of people actually do finish in the four years. I myself am not one of them but that was because I chose a major with a five year track and then decided to try my hands at a performance opportunity and some time off before coming back (and actually switching majors but keeping the five year track). It is what you make of it. I consider myself one of the most reclusive of people, but I can still get out there and have a good time in Cleveland. And there's so much within walking distance of campus. The problem I've found is that most of the students would rather sit there and whine than get their butts out and about.
There are very few from what was technically Miss Emily and mine's class who did not graduate in the four years (me being one of them, but again, see above). In fact, most actually did if I'm not mistaken.
To Miss Emily:
Chick, I miss doing puzzles with you & Evan. I have a 3D one of the Taj Mahal sitting in my closet right now and when I look at it, I think of the few times the three of us sat together and worked on them. Then the times of sitting in Leutner with Colleenie and Becky and doing the crossword puzzles in the back of the observer on Fridays.
I should put up a gothified picture for halloween. I enjoyed your intro poem, as well and also enjoyed reading it out loud.
Lastly, I've read that or a similar quote before. I think it's impossible to know someone else completely. I don't even know myself completely, no one can do that either. I list self-awareness as an expertise of mine, but agree with most that knowing someone else completely is impossible. Loving them completely is very possible though and to do this, you have to know someone pretty well and embrace the bad stuff about them with the good. And that is a big part of what marriage is all about.