Nautical Miles

Heading back home right now from Pei and I'm so bored. Only went for a night, it was fun to say hello to my family, but it seemed kinda pointless overall. I love my extended family, but most of the ones I talk to are uncles and aunts. I only talk to like one of my (literally) thirteen cousins. So its usually just normal family catch-up. Suppose that's my fault though, its not like I start conversations much or reply in more then give word answers. But I had to listen to my brother talk about his girlfriends to my uncle and listen about his sexlife when my cousin brought it up. Just makes me want companionship even more, not even sex or anything just someone to spend time with. But I'm like thirty minutes from home now so I'll stop my little ramble for now.

I’ve fairly recently moved back to one of my favorite cities, lets call it Aeroton. The city itself is a decent size with a large river cutting it in half but that's not really the focus here.  I’ve been trying to  reconnect with the people I knew that still live here. So far I’ve had some success, one person that I meet with about once a month for coffee to catch up and talk, another who I hang out with every week and one every once in a while. But recently I tried to reconnect with a close friend that I had lost contact with. The results were not so good, he moved 30 minutes out of town and hadn’t changed what so ever. Normally this wouldn't bother me since I love stability, if it doesn’t have to change then it doesn’t, but he doesn’t have a job, doesn’t want to even attempt going to college or university until he knows what he wants to do and talks about his views from five years ago. I could understand the not having a job since he has some leg issues that have been around since I first met him but the university part bothered me. I love knowledge plain and simple. He wouldn’t really listen when I told him he could do a semester of arts and take a broad range of courses to figure out what he wanted to do or even just talk to a recruiter who might be able to give him an idea. At this point, I was ready to politely leave and maybe hang out another day but I figured I’d talk with him a bit more. This is when he started to open up a bit too much with talk of wanting a furry suit. That’s correct dear reader, he wants a furry suit so he can create a furry persona or “fur-sona” as he called it. Now I understand that everyone has their kinks and this may not even be sexual but I don’t think its cool to just start talking about that in a public place with someone who you haven’t seen in five years. Maybe I’m the weird one for thinking this is strange but I didn’t lead him into that topic or anything, he just brought it up himself. but, whatever...

Probably too much information for strangers, but whatever...

Not such a nice day today.

My daily helper.

So yesterday I had to go to my university library. It was a mandatory class for Ancient Greece and the librarian was really weird. She acted like she was our savior coming from on high, as though we were all heathen barbarians who needed to be shown the right path. I don't know about anyone else, but I've used a library before. So long as I'm told how to use the organizing system, I can find what I need. But this librarian was acting like we've only used wikipedia for essays so far.  While that may be true for one or two students, most teachers require the use of actual books for assignments. It was getting to the point where telling us about the system started to sound more like a cop trying to get a criminal to confess than what should have been a quick explanation. Then she switched from bad cop to good cop, explaining that she had taught our course before.  At that point it started to seem like she was giving us a tip on a horse race. I realize this is probably a weird thing to talk about, but whatever.

Birth.