Step 1: Just do it.

Today I bought a skateboard. I've been wanting to skate forever, so I just took the plunge. I took a few pointers from the dudes at Ride Brooklyn, who were great, but I fell anyway. I will definitely post pictures, once I figure out how to do technology/learn how to do something besides glide along for two feet at a time. One thing I can say for sure is that skateboarding is way more fun than going to the gym.

Tomorrow I'm off to Manchester, TN for Bonnaroo, then the Wesleyan Writer's Conference, and then Canada. What a long strange trip it's been, what a long strange trip it'll be. I guess I'll take the board with me.

Maybe this time I'll remember to take pictures.

So It ends and begins

I never thought I'd do this- keep some kind of blog- but here I am doing it anyway.

I find myself at some kind of turning point now. I'm a recent graduate of Wesleyan University. I spent most of my time there slacking off, stoned, drunk, unhappy and not sure why, or what I could do to change it. I felt like it would never end, and I felt guilty for feeling that way. I wanted to have more fun, do better, be more, but I never did, and so I never was.

Then one day, after four years, I graduated. Something changed because I woke up.

I am:

Excited- I'm an incredibly lucky girl with lots of love in my life.

Scared- This is a big world, with a lot of problems.

Sad- See above.

Angry- a lot of these problems need to be changed. Things don't need to be this way.

Ready- to be, make, see, changes.

I am saddened and angered by the things I read in the news: Arizona Immigration Law, Prop 8, BP Oil Spills, Genocide, the still-shocking re-election of GWB, the war in Iraq (no wait, excuse me, invasion), Violence, Rape, Widespread Poverty etc. I am inspired by the sometimes quiet, but persistent, buds of idealism that I see sprouting up in my peers (Kibera School for Girls, anyone?). And I want to be a part of that change.

I guess this is the part where I begin my life as I want it to be, not as I was made to believe I had to live it.