a little info

 Today is the day that I started this new blog. I have made other ones in the past but I haven't kept up with them. I plan to keep up with this one to practice my writing skills and also to talk about things that excite me and whatever. Mainly I plan to talk about media I've seen and why I like it (and why I don't). I really want to focus on music and movies, but I will also talk about books when I actually finish one. 

There are a lot of things to catch you up on here, but I don't even know where to begin. How do I go through 20 years of my life in a consolidated, five-paragraph blog post? I don't actually know. I am spending my first autumn/winter in a place that almost feels like those are real seasons. I am from San Diego, so those don't really exist in my mind. Northern California gives you almost every kind of season. Except snow. Where I live at least. One of my friends told me that once it rains, it doesn't stop. Lucky for me I love the rain so I'll be just fine with that. 

Maybe I can also fill you in on my experience in a new city. I have no memory of living in a different place other than San Diego (even though I lived nearby San Francisco for one of my baby years), so it is overly exciting to be somewhere new. I don't know if people really prepare you for how lonely it is though. Even though I live here with my best friend, I go to a college with over 25,000 people my age, and the community is fairly outgoing, I still am finding myself in a rut of not fitting in with the crowd here. 

Everyone has told me it is because I am under 21. Everyone likes to drink here. People go to the bars or they go to fraternity-sponsored events. To be honest neither of these really sounds appealing to me, so I guess I'm shit out of luck. That being said, I have been trying to find a "third location" of sorts that can help me meet other people. Right now that place is a cafe that I go to almost three times a week. It also helps that I think one of the baristas is extremely attractive, but that is beside the point (more on this later). 

No more to say about this right now, I will start my journey here, technically on October 15, but I am updating this on the 17th instead.