Winter Break
January 21st, 2005 by Sarin
back to school
and I hate it there, I hate it there
Everything I want I gotta wait a year, I wait a year
This nigga graduated at the top of my class..
I went to Cheesecake, he was a motherfucking waiter there”
-K. West, “School Spirit”
Back at school, not necessarily hating, but I think you get the idea.
Winter break was alright. It wasn’t overly boring and overly exciting so I can’t complain. On this break, I knew that I had no intention of working or even working on anything. Instead, I was focusing on catching up with things I don’t normally do during school.
For example, I
-slept 10 hours a day
-started and played Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas right up to the very last level
-read a lot of books in-house (not in my house, but at the actual book store or library)
-watched every episode of Lost
-watched every episode of Desperate Housewives
-worked out around 4 days a week while running 2 days a week and watching the Ellen show
-had a mid life art crisis and stripped my blog and photoblog to a straight clean no clutter look
-saw lots of movies, old and new
-for one week I went shopping for 6 days in a row, most of them were at the same mall, and spending several hundred dollars that may or may not have been mine
-played solitaire on my phone till 8am on the nights that I couldn’t sleep
-had a face to face confrontation with 2 fat squirrels in the attic of my house
-ate a lot
-played bingo at Foxwoods
-spent time with my parents, who were home everyday when I was
-had a 4 day phase where I couldn’t sleep and thinking or reading about the future was the only solution
-visited many fine (and maybe not so fine) Providence establishments
-drank too many cups of vanilla chai
-drove fearlessly on Rhode Island streets during a couple blizzards
-had a New Years Eve Party
-hung out at the cabin
-got another boobie poster as a gift
-hung out at some parties down south
-played ‘rag’
-wore Meg’s underwear on my head
-played Half-Life 2
-pulled my hair on some php code
-lost 5 pounds while feeling like I gained 10
That’s winter break in a nutshell. I didn’t blog too much considering Grand Theft Auto was that much of a good time waster, and something I miss today. Also, my desk was fatiguing me when I was reading or writing too long, so that wasn’t too fun.
It has been a long time since my parents have got to see me for an extended amount of time. I normally never see my dad during the week because he works nights. He does weird things during the day that I didn’t know of. He wasn’t excited that I was there; it was just another reason for him to be or stay useful. Plus, he had someone else to enjoy his tea with.
My mom is getting bored, I can tell. If I am up at 7am watching a movie, she’ll get up and go to the bathroom and lay on the couch next to me. She’s having surgery on her arm (tendonitis) but something tells me it’s not the surgery she worries about. I think she’s somewhere in the middle of being bored from not being at work and relieved at not working. Right now, she is impressing me at how well she works at computers. She surfs the internet and listens to the radio better than some teachers I have met. And she doesn’t even speak that good english.
One thing, that’s not so obvious though, is how if you don’t have money, you just don’t spend it. I didn’t have a job, neither my mom, and we made the best of it. I didn’t go out every night, even though I really couldn’t, but I’m sure I would have spent more if I of course had more. My mom, on one hand can’t even shop anymore if she’s given gift cards. Might be slightly depressing to receive a credit gift, only not to know what to do with it. So she just gives it to me.
I haven’t had this type of vacation since freshman year of high school. Ever since then, I started working jobs on my summers; that or looking for a job. I don’t know why I make a big deal about having money all the time, but it’s one of those things I’m so used to. I am just used to working and having money on my own compared to having some take care of me.
Well this winter break, someone took care of me and it might be the last time ever. I know time at home from now on, will be rare and far apart. It was my last chance before I get too old.
And then this semester began.
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