It has been awhile folks, but I must confess I’ve taken quite the stroll around writer’s block. There are any number of things to post about anymore. In particular the dismissal of “coffee house” coffee by such coffee experts as McDonalds or Speedway. How about the amazing album that Animal Collective just dropped and my epic quest to find the early vinyl release? Or how about an equally long rant about one of my and Whiskey’s shared passions, the OSU Buckeyes. In the end I am completely anhedonic….and clearly over-dramatic. The title of the post is not only a tip of the hat to quite an amazing album opener, but honestly the best description of the so-called break year I have been on. You see after graduating from Miami University (yes even my choice of college was ironic in a sense), I decided I needed time to clear my head and really focus in on my passions. I grossly miscalculated the time to achieve those goals. Ever since has been kind of a waffling between a happy state of floating and all out purgatory ha.
Now don’t be worried I don’t plan to spend the rest of this post whining about being back in my hometown, or how there is no one around, or how the woman I love is about to leave and will probably never “come back”. No this is more of a public self-affirmation that any experience can be filled with growth. I’ve grown a lot in these few months I’ve been away from Oxford and I have a winter planned filled with as many boundry pushing experiences as I can think of. It takes a lot of focus to “live in the moment” but if we forget about the past we sometimes forget that we’ve probably gone through much worse. If you’re lucky enough to not be carrying some kind of emotional burden like the rest of us then I guess just turn on the news, it always makes me feel better about my life.
So what was my point? Oh yes, I am bidding adieu to overly self-involved posts where I subject those 3 or 4 readers Whiskey thinks we have to mindless ramblings you could find on any high schools kid’s Xanga. From here on out I’ll get serious, get over myself, finish licking my wounds, and fix that radio tuner so that I’m not stuck between stations anymore. This is apparently the year of change? If there is a God, he is not without a sense of humor. In the meantime check out this song from that album I am obsessed with…
Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
-Wine
PS My reaction to the OSU game? Yeah I evicted two players from their apartment today, what does that say? 
