Homecoming

Today I managed to connect my iBook to the internet. I had been mentally preparing myself for what would surely be a difficult ordeal. It took about a minute. I am very grateful, but the most I can really be is cautiously optimistic, seeing as it all happened too fast.

I've had a friend in town for a couple of days. A poli-sci type, brooding, reflective. I had forgotten how truly distressing (in so many ways) a place the world is. Basically, foo two days straight, he was expounding on all the ways society could collapse or regress or human stupidity could destroy everything that is of any value whatsoever. I enjoy those talks. And after that, he proceeded to shoot down my optimistic preconceptions. I rather enjoy that too.

Consider: "nobody values easy goals, We only really get off and have something to show for mad struggle: impossible exams, taxing jobs, collapsing societies, war stories, shocks and disappointments are all fodder for good conversations,"