Well, I went home last wknd, it was pretty much awesome. Got me some Shunshine, Lissa-poo, WO (who I will never again refer to as anything other than Sweet, Sexy Gregory), Chris, Nathan, Eric, Adam, Ian, Mom, Dad, Katie, Nancy, Randy, Darcy, Ms. V., and Dulin (and Shelley [and like 12 random people from pretty much everywhere we went who were from Harding {that is, we saw people from Harding EVERYWHERE}]). Lissa was down on her way to ATL to check out the city where she may go to grad school or teach (despite T4A’s stupid ass decision not to support her), and I think Sweet, Sexy Gregory plans to enroll in their Digital Media program. So, I basically decided around August that I would be in CLT for a few years following graduation. Well, this weekend really made me sure of that decision, I am SO ready to be home. I mean, I kind of relate to Largeman in Garden State in feeling that I don’t have a home now, but that it’s time for me to go out and make my own, but for right now, my home is with my family, and my family are those listed above (plus a few such as Bert, Mia, Cameron, and Hannah, but I don’t know where they’ll end up), and they are mostly in CLT as of May or June. So, basically, I’m really excited to get back to Charlotte, and as much as I know I’ll miss UNC, I am very tired of many things:

• DPS. That’ll have to be a whol’nother post.
• Game Days. I like games, I love the hype, but I hate how the whole town revolves around the damn games, heaven forbid any inhabitant, esp. those on campus have anything other than the game going on.
• Housing. I don’t know if i’ll post about this at all, after i leave, or if i’ll leave it as this: The UNC DHRE takes advantage of its staff (student and otherwise) and their mission, or maybe in spite of their mission, many of their policies and procedures are unfair, hypocritical or even discriminatory. If you care about why, ask and maybe i’ll do a real post about this, but unless they piss me off sometime soon, this prolly won’t get back on the radar.
• Privilege. That is, people being blind to the privileges they’re afforded, taking them for granted, and refusing to learn some serious out-of-classroom lessons that demonstrate how in the real world, lare portions of people, if not vast majorities are without the privileges that people seem to fail to appreciate daily.
• Homework. I don’t like the lack of separation between tasks that I have here. I would like to say that I take full responsibility for this mixing that I so despise, and that I recognize ways out, but I do not feel like the way I have to separate these tasks would be as beneficial to me as the things I have chosen that result in the mixing. Now, freshman first year, I had 1 room, and this I shared with a pretty good roommate (Ryan). My desk was really small so when I would do work, for example write a program where I needed a book or papers out, I could have either the keyboard on the desk or my notes or my book, so I would do my work on my laptop, in my bed. Well, Jenny taught me that there’s some pyscho issues of doing work where you sleep and sleeping where you work, so I stopped working in bed, and this increased my productivity, reduced my fatigue, AND made me sleep better (well, I mean, I don’t know for sure that these results were due to this change, but it’s convincing enough for me). Sophomore second and third years, I had a room to myself, so I had enough space to do homework on my desk or table or couch and to primarily sleep in my bed. This is a little better, but still, the space of my room (11′-by-12′) was kind of a weird place, was my couch for relaxing or working, or better, my whole room, was it where tha party @? where I do school/homework? where I do RA work/counsel residents? Now my fourth year, I have an “apartment”, I do work on one couch, chill on the other (when possible) sleep in my bed, work on my computer, but I still don’t like that RA work (being on duty/bulletin board/program responsibilities are not in defined RA work times, but whenever I can fit them in, or squeeze out something else to do these, RA and school work encroaches on my personal space. So, even though I’ll be working from home for IBM, I still plan to really separate work and play and relaxation.

Anyways, gotta go play Wii for a few and then go to the UNC-Duke bball game.