*contented sigh*

Sometimes the best feeling in the world is when I'm driving late at night, like after midnight late when there's literally no one else on the road, just winding through familiar streets with something meaningful and poweful blasting through the stereo, the type of music that consumes you...turn it up, take a deep breath, and feel overwhelmed by the mixture of strings and bass and a powerful melody with hints of a choir, the type of music that is capable of rendering you speechless and gives you the chills and reminds me why I'm a music major...like tonight when I was coming home from Sandy's. Just zigzaging around with Pirates two on really loud to the point where I started trying to avoid residential areas because I didn't want to turn it down, but I was afraid it was too loud. It just gives me time to think...it lasted a whole ten minutes, but I haven't done that since Janurary. That's a large part of what makes me wish I had a car on campus...so when I'm feeling overwhelmed, I could just drive in circles for a while like that. It's very calming.
Sometimes, I'm convinced I can relate to people on campus sooooo well...really well, like no one else I've related to before. Then I spend a few hours with a close friend and I realize that maybe I was thinking wrongly...yes, I can relate to people on campus in a few different aspects, but tonight...there was no tiptoeing. At all. Experiences, stories, feelings, even religion and politics (which are two of the hairiest topics for me on campus, as most everyone I'm around is very religious and very very conservative)...I just realized how much I've overlooked a few things.
I can't wait until summer.
So Sandy and I are in the same boat at school. We're each stuck in a political trap. We're really liberal...everyone else is really conservative. Normally, it's not cause for anything, but sometimes, some topics and conversations...get interesting. Very interesting. So we let off a lot of steam on that one topic alone. We've decided to make shirts over the summer. Brightly colored, saying things like "pro-choice, pro-gay marriage feminist" on the front and "liberal whacko" across the back with a jersey-type number, mine being 19. Yay! =]
I'm listening to Pirates again and I feel like going for another drive. But I'm more than an hour past curfew...so maybe I can sneak off sometime tomorrow...I really miss driving. A lot.