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Back to New York. Again.

My parents informed me on Thursday that they were planning on going down to New York City for the four day weekend. Both my sister and my father were really excited about seeing The Gates. I wasn't too enthusiastic about going. I had already been in New York like three weeks ago. Although I mostly enjoyed my time there, I'm not really in a rush to go back. I'm also kind of hesitant to go on any more spur of the moment road trips.

Plus, those Gates look more like a thing for New Yorkers to enjoy. Not something to go on an eight hour car drive to see. I don't want to sound totally uncultured and unintelligent, but, come on, they're ORANGE POSTS. I wasn't about to go down to New York for two days just to see those.

So, in the end, my father and my sister ended up going, and my mother and I are staying home. At first I felt kind of guilty about it, I didn't want my mother to feel badly about not going. She said that she didn't really want to go either, though.... so.... yay! My mother and I usually have fun with it's just the two of us at home, so I'm happy about that. Even if I'm not going to New York.

My mother and I already have plans to visit the Albright Knox art gallery and the Botanical Gardens. I haven't been to the Botanical Gardens in ages, and even though it's just a bunch of plants, I'm in a kind of springy mood.

I'm currently kind of freaking out about colleges. The whole college thing is approaching faster and faster and it's really worrying me. The only college I'm really considering is Pratt, but that's in New York and is SUPER expensive. I have no idea how we're going to pay for it.But seriously, it's so perdy. I'm also kind of worried about living alone away from my family and home. I think I'd be homesick in like half an hour. And I'm not a very social person.... and I'd probably have anxiety attacks like every day. So.... yeah, this is scary.

[P.S. — Some of you may have noticed that over the past week I had turned off regular commenting and made TypeKey commenting mandatory. I did this because of the horrible spam comments I've been getting. I have turned regular commenting back on, at least in the most recent posts on the main page. I installed a plugin the turns off comments on older posts. For some reason, though, the old posts still display the comment form. So don't get angry if it doesn't let you comment, I'm trying to work on that. Anyway, I might or might not make TypeKey mandatory in the future, so it wouldn't hurt to sign up.]

February 19, 2005 at 12:15 PM

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