I was at UNO today for a cello lesson, which isn’t anything new, but this time the campus wasn’t empty like it was for most of the summer. Classes started there yesterday, and teh campus was full of people. It was a little bizarre being there with so many students running around at the beginning of a new year. I felt very out place without a backpack or a class-schedule or anything else to mark me as a student. It seems so clear to me that the new year has started, but I’m still stuck in summer vactation. It’s become sort of a temporal dead-zone in between one world and another. Many of my friends have left, and it’s clear that my high school life is over, but I haven’t yet begun college. Maybe I’ll change my tune once I actually have to start doing the work associated with higher education, but for yhe moment I’m just anxious to get out of the house.

On the other hand, it was really kind of neat to see all the students and faculty and staff at UNO going about there lives. Seeing everyone walking around with there own individual agenda makes the campus such a vibrant place. I noticed the same sort thing when I was in Washington D.C. earlier this summer. The sidewalk culture of the downtown area made the city seem so much more alive than the car-happy suburbs. Maybe I’m just seeing profundity everywhere these days, but the interaction I saw in D.C. or at UNO seemed so much more human than that which takes place in the in the sprawl of new development. UNO is a strange place to come to such a realization, since I’ve been there so many times, but I have a slightly different perspective on things (especially colleges) at this point.