Day 104: Homesick, girlsick
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Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
A year of music, study, travel, sightseeing &
friends.
Day 104
— Homesick, girlsick
14-November-1971
(Sun.)
TRANSCRIPT
Practiced—getting tired. Feel like I could use a
vacation.
In the afternoon, practiced guitar a little and did
nothing. I sat around and thought a lot. That made me
a lot “tireder.” Actually, I was only a little
homesick, but moreso, I would have liked (by now) a
nice relationship (intellectual, etc.) with some
beautiful girl—dream away. I miss Anjali. I hope I
can find someone to take her place soon.
REFLECTIONS
I’m
tired. Well, it
looks like I’m
more tired than
I realize. So tired, that I’ve been the
tiredest I’ve ever
been. I’ve never felt more
tireder. I’m
actually getting tired of this paragraph. There was
no Grammar Girl in 1971.
Homesick,
girlsick. Keeping
yourself busy and occupied is good. It keeps you
going, moving forward. However, if you’re away from
home or away from that special person (who could that
be?), it’s also natural to feel homesick and to miss
the people you want to be with. It’s ok. Writing
letters was part of the way to relieve some of this
feeling.
Replace
Anjali? What? What
heresy is this? Wash out my mouth with soap, damn me.
While, it’s ok to have plenty of school friends, it’s
nice to have new girl friends. Most often in life,
this hasn’t happened to me. It’s not easy meeting
those special people that have some kind of magnetism
on you. Also, I’ve always been too busy with school,
work, projects, work, school, life, and mostly work,
work, and work. And I’m a one-girl guy. Once I have a
girlfriend, I’m occupied.
Moving
on. That said,
I think most people move on to new relationships much
easier. And that is also good. Most of these
relationships are probably casual dates. And that is
good. I think that I did not date unless I was really
interested in a person. That probably killed a lot of
first dates. 
John
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