ThinkThought # 11 : The First Day of School

A crick in my neck, a spring in my step, a slug on my deck... this has been one of THE most eventful first days back to school EVAR. The first day is always just AWESOME. I wish I could feel insecure about myself around new people and be socially awkward in the back corner of my classroom EVERY DAY. That would just tickle me pink. I wish that I would be convinced that I would fail French 111, and be stuck repeating it every semester for the rest of my tenure here at UBC, EVERY DAY. I wish that I was stared down in front of the Student Union Sub Building by Fratties (but not approached, of course, because I am just too intimidating....) EVERY DAY. I wish that I could experience awkward first years attempting to make new friends (or any friends at all), despite their inability to properly string a sentence together before running away in fear of opening up to anyone (wait - is that just me?).

I love the first day of school.

I love the feeling I get in my stomach (the one where it feels like you are hungry, but then it turns into nausea, which results in you getting nervous because you think you will throw up, which results in you sweating AND pit stains, which results in embarassment and being called "Pancake Boy"). I love sitting by myself in common areas pretending to text people on my phone because I try to make it look like I am alone because I am just TOO busy texting other people to be with "real" people in the here and now. I love getting lost in buildings because room numbers make no sense at all and should be in a coherent order but they aren't, resulting in being late for class, and being looked at by EVERYONE as you awkwardly shuffle your way to the only open seat in the very middle of the entire classroom while the professor makes some off-handed remark about how tardiness attributes to failure and to make an example of this poor, wet, waddler entering the room.

I love the first day of school.

But the best part of the first day of school? When the clock strikes 12:00, and you realize it's no longer the first day of school, and hopefully, JUST HOPEFULLY, you won't have to experience any of it again for another 365 days.