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Ali's a little melancholy. :) Don't mind her. :)
I realized tonight that once upon a time, this diary was a place of joy and warmth and happy Ali-ness... and it saddens me that I've let it become so lackadaisical and instead placed most of my energies into LJ, which while home to more people, never has quite the same depth of feeling that Diaryland had. I think it's all the white backgrounds. In Dland, we have multicolored backgrounds, and when we read one another's entries, we have to be at the other person's diary, whereas in LJ, all your friends are on one page with white backgrounds. This doesn't really make for a rich, personal diary-type experience.
Anyway, I was looking at my old diary entries because I apparently just CANNOT get to bed before midnight anymore so I waste a lot of time before bed, and it made me really melancholy. Those were awfully good times last year, and the year before too. That's not to say that right now isn't good times, because really I do have fun here, but you know what? My first year of college wasn't nearly as rich as the subsequent years, and it was because I was just making my friends... they weren't my family-away-from-family yet. So that's how it is here, and I have both a family and a family-away-from-family to miss, and it's just sad. Fortunately, I get to visit next weekend, and on Nov 1st too! SWEET! Miss you all, and will see you soon! Well, maybe except for Genevieve. Hey, Genevieve, you should come up next weekend or the weekend after! :P
Byebyeeeee!