{"id":4882,"date":"2014-02-27T17:55:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T21:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2014-02-27T17:55:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T21:55:15","slug":"woah-im-so-excited-i-cant-breathe-what-hello-where-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2014\/02\/27\/woah-im-so-excited-i-cant-breathe-what-hello-where-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"WOAH IM SO EXCITED I CANT BREATHE, WHAT HELLO WHERE AM I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m at the point in my life\/semester\/being where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m overwhelmed by living&#8211;it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just so damn exciting. I wake up and get to learn, get to work, get to work out, get to read, get to love, get to eat, get to dance (my knee is more or less healed), I get to be.<\/p>\n<p>I get to listen to 2ne1\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new album and RuPaul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new album. AKA life is good.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2NE1_CRUSH.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4883\" alt=\"2NE1_CRUSH\" src=\"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2NE1_CRUSH-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/rupaul-born-naked-400x400.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4884\" alt=\"rupaul-born-naked-400x400\" src=\"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/rupaul-born-naked-400x400-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nI find myself so excited, or so overwhelmed by emotion, or so confused, that I cannot breath. Akin to panic\/anxiety attacks, this type of attack is, what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned, what it means for me (in this moment) to be alive. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like an eternal trill on pick-your-instrument. So exciting, so fast, so pretty, so alarming.<\/p>\n<p>I finished (one of) my favorite book(s) yesterday. I got to jog two days in a row. I frolicked in the sun. I made an amazing meal. I met a friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s girlfriend. I spent much needed time with a semi-significant other. And, of course, bad things happened, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in this moment that I just need to celebrate the good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow (after 4:30) marks the first inhalation of Spring Break and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be holding my breath until it ends.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like when you step into UMMA, wander upstairs, and see Monet *literally* just peeking at you. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like wandering into a club to see your friend DJ-ing. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like walking down the street and having someone across the intersection belting Beyonce. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like almost slipping on ice and then catching yourself in a bush. Pretty much the best thing ever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amazing-Smiling-Singer-Beyonce-Knowles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4885\" alt=\"Amazing-Smiling-Singer-Beyonce-Knowles\" src=\"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amazing-Smiling-Singer-Beyonce-Knowles-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So even if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m utterly bored by still being in undergrad. Even if it surprised snowed at me after a Bio exam (#lol). Even if everyone is really a mess. Even if I will have never gone anywhere for Spring Break EVER.<\/p>\n<p>I still have this one panicked breath. And that, really, is all I need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m at the point in my life\/semester\/being where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m overwhelmed by living&#8211;it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just so damn exciting. I wake up and get to learn, get to work, get to work out, get to read, get to love, get to eat, get to dance (my knee is more or less healed), I get to be. I get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[557,562,561,192,559,558,560,563],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}