Me: Quiet, homebody, yearning for transfer. YEARNING! The conversation turned to UC Santa Cruz a couple times, I made a few jokes. When we talked about UC food, they started talking about mushrooms and berries — I threw out baked banana slugs (I could never, though). "I heard it's basically slop," I said, "Well not slop. I think they're overexaggerating. But it's definitely below average". Mentioned Dave. Gave kind of undefined answers to certain things, simply because I haven't gotten those experiences. Talked about my "post-high school purgatory" still being here in hometown after 3 years, they all said that was fine. And cheaper, absolutely cheaper for sure, especially since I changed my major. Daphne joked she would've gone a little insane being here, I laughed a bit, said I was a little insane already. Julie is very looking forward to my social life after transfer which is like ... I would have to reboot my atrophied social skills first, but I'm lowkey super looking forward to it too. The hard part about making friends at De Anza — and I have 0, zilch — is that it's so TRANSIENT. No one lives here, there are no dorms, everyone commutes. I'm genuinely shocked people even talk to each other post-COVID, let alone me, but that could just be my own insecurities. UCSC, even though I'm staying there for "only" 2 years, feels much more permanent. And DORMS! I'm meeting people on my floor whether I want to or not. And if I have a camera you bet I'm going to be out there tripping taking photos of the redwoods and the beach. Well, I'd need sunscreen too. What else, what else ... I think that's mostly it. Anticipating UCSC, mostly. Which I suppose was the main theme this year, but they really picked up on it this time.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391