Jake 🇺🇸

Killing Lions
2015-07-25 18:30:23 (UTC)

Volleyball

I finally had a chance to play volleyball with my church; after FIVE Saturdays of RAIN. It was AMAZING!! We played probably for 3 hours, yelling and screaming. I knew a couple of the people from church and it was sooo cool to actually play with them, tease them -- especially the girls lol (they're always fun to tease). I'm not going to forget this day for awhile. I enjoyed myself.

Later I biked home, showered and just laid on the couch -- for like a whole hour. I was actually surprised; I live with 12 other guys but when i got home; no one! Just me in a quiet house. That's how I like to spend my Saturday afternoons after playing hard in the morning :)

I love my alone time. Being able to reminisce about highlights of the day. There was two other interns that I met that were really cool to hang out with, there was this engineer student that was like totally in my boat, we really connected.

I REALLY needed this time off. To get my head out of my work life (and that stupid girl) for awhile.

The sad part is that I'm headed back to school, leaving DC next week.
I'm going to miss the STUFF that happens here in the city. Hopefully I'll come back next year or something. Who knows? But I'm confident there will be an adventure where ever God takes me!

So i still don't know how I feel about living in the city. So many things happen, so many things are above you... In a way i think it was damaging to me, I feel like my mood has really gone down since I've moved here. As an intern all i do is consume, go to other peoples' parties, attend "intern" meets. It's like I just don't contribute. I feel like I've lost some of my motivation.

Well, I won't dwell on that; if I do I'll become that.

Anyway, the study group I've been with is having this "End-of-Summer" party in like 2 hours. I'm really excited, i don't think i could handle anything too physical atm; I've just realized how sore I am from today. There was this one time when me and this other guy were both jumping up to get a ball, collided and basically fell on top of each other (ouch). Anyway, my knee/foot is going to be sore tomorrow.

So I was reading some other diaries. Usually i don't, i guess i was just bored. But I was kind of depressed on what I was reading, they're all so sad and gloomy. Why do people do this to themselves? Why dwell on all the sucky things that happen to you?

I guess it's easier to think about your failures or your sadness. The problem is, thinking about them DOESN'T HELP YOU. Seriously: GET OVER IT! No one gives a fuck about how you can't get over a breakup that happened months ago.

Well, anyway, i should call this quits. I can literally go on forever, i actually wouldn't be surprised if some of my entries were several pages long.




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