Thursday, October 24, 2013

636, 174, 28

I've changed my mind.  The greatest distance is not time.  It's the 1,957 miles from Costa Mesa, CA, to Viroqua WI.  On google maps they told me it would take 636 hours to walk that.  174 hours to bike it.  28 hours to drive.  That's not that much.  If I could drive and go without sleep or food or bathrooms for that long I could be in Viroqua by 9:30 tomorrow night.  It's mean to myself to think about that.  And it's ridiculous that today, of all days, I'm thinking about this.  I had a really good day today.  Today at school was a great day.  We finished chemistry so we have no homework and I was in a really good mood and everything was funny.  I've been really good about this for a while now.  I haven't been sad at all.  For some reason I came home and my happiness turned into anger which turned into tears which now has me sitting here in front of a computer screen writing to no one.  I have no one new to talk about this with.  If I was this sad in Viroqua I would go in the woods or go to La Maison.  But here the woods are unfamiliar and don't have my things.  There's no stream.  There's no sunshine tree.  There's no one I can talk to about this here, besides my family and it's different because I've already talked to them about it enough.  Everyone here has been at this school their whole life.  They don't know what it's like to leave your most favorite place in the world, a peaceful little town full of memories and stories in the Midwest, and be dropped down in the middle of a city full of trash and harsh edges and the newest and fastest and best.  I mean seriously people, why do you care so much about who has the new iPhone??  seriously.
If anyone out there is reading this, I'm sorry.  I'm sorry you had your time wasted by my rant.  I have these moods sometimes.  By tomorrow, when I'm surfing before school, I'll be thinking how ridiculous I was to write all this junk.  But it's what I'm feeling right now so I have to write about t or it'll only get worse.  Thank you to anyone who cares enough to read it.    
I just spell-checked this and it said "Viroqua" is not a word.  The words I thought when I read this are not nice so I won't put them here.