current music: Billy Bragg and Wilco - California Stars
current mood: wistful
People and things I'll miss about Santa Cruz:
- Living in a small town that still has a cosmopolitan flair to it, with just about every scene you could think of, and being able to jump between them too.
- A vibrant, diverse music scene, especially for a city of our size
- The beautiful beaches, which are even more beautiful at night, when you and your friends are the only ones there
- Free Radio Santa Cruz, one of the freakiest, funkiest radio stations I've ever heard
- The Barn on High Street and the Zami co-op
- Getting into punk music the right way: tiny mosh pits in tiny living rooms filled with rockin' bands and fifty people who are all there to party
- The anarcho-crust woodsies, and saturday night campfires at the secret spot high in the forest
- SG Santa Cruz! I hardly knew ye, but you're all great
- Hera and Thistle, our very own local SG's
- UC Santa Cruz, the most beautiful college campus in the world, where I spent three years and learned that I may never know everything, but to always keep questioning. It was a bubble, but a wonderful, magical bubble full of wonderful people still
- The home-bums, buskers, street kids, hippies, and wierdos who make downtown Santa Cruz what it is. All the freaky people make the beauty of the world!
- A city council unafraid to take stands on national and foreign policy issues, if only they were as progressive locally!
- Having easy access to organic, veg and "health" foods, for cheap too!
- The redwoods that I and thousands of lucky UC students have as our backyard. I'll miss all the happy forest critters, even the ones with sharp teeth. It's an enchanted forest, and I'll always remember the times I spent wandering around in it
- Perfect weather for nine months out of the year, with just enough drizzle and unpredictability to keep us on our toes
- Did I mention the beach?
- The laid-back, chill attitude that everyone, not just surfers and hippies, have. I just hope living on Santa Cruz Time doesn't get me fired!
- The open, warm, friendliness that almost everyone has, not just the hippies. Hugs instead of handshakes. Loving people everywhere.
- Cafe Brasil, Caffe Pergolesi, Bookshop Santa Cruz, the Food Bin, the Poet and the Patriot, the Red Room, the Hungry Slug, the Kresge Food Co-op, and last but not least, the Saturn Cafe
- the Sacred Grove, witch-shop and IWW collective, who showed me the path of the Goddess, and reminded me that spirituality can be whatever I make of it
- Colleen, Nicole, Anne, Amy, Jessica and Lisa. It didn't work out, but it was great fun while it lasted, and I'm better for having known you all. Love.
- And the view from campus. It's one of the most beautiful panoramas any city can boast. So many times I've just sat and gazed out, thinking how blessed I was to be here, in this place, in this moment.
......
[cries]
hmm, now I'm not so sure I want to leave. But I must. There's still a whole world out there, and I plan on discovering it.
current mood: wistful
People and things I'll miss about Santa Cruz:
- Living in a small town that still has a cosmopolitan flair to it, with just about every scene you could think of, and being able to jump between them too.
- A vibrant, diverse music scene, especially for a city of our size
- The beautiful beaches, which are even more beautiful at night, when you and your friends are the only ones there
- Free Radio Santa Cruz, one of the freakiest, funkiest radio stations I've ever heard
- The Barn on High Street and the Zami co-op
- Getting into punk music the right way: tiny mosh pits in tiny living rooms filled with rockin' bands and fifty people who are all there to party
- The anarcho-crust woodsies, and saturday night campfires at the secret spot high in the forest
- SG Santa Cruz! I hardly knew ye, but you're all great
- Hera and Thistle, our very own local SG's
- UC Santa Cruz, the most beautiful college campus in the world, where I spent three years and learned that I may never know everything, but to always keep questioning. It was a bubble, but a wonderful, magical bubble full of wonderful people still
- The home-bums, buskers, street kids, hippies, and wierdos who make downtown Santa Cruz what it is. All the freaky people make the beauty of the world!
- A city council unafraid to take stands on national and foreign policy issues, if only they were as progressive locally!
- Having easy access to organic, veg and "health" foods, for cheap too!
- The redwoods that I and thousands of lucky UC students have as our backyard. I'll miss all the happy forest critters, even the ones with sharp teeth. It's an enchanted forest, and I'll always remember the times I spent wandering around in it
- Perfect weather for nine months out of the year, with just enough drizzle and unpredictability to keep us on our toes
- Did I mention the beach?
- The laid-back, chill attitude that everyone, not just surfers and hippies, have. I just hope living on Santa Cruz Time doesn't get me fired!
- The open, warm, friendliness that almost everyone has, not just the hippies. Hugs instead of handshakes. Loving people everywhere.
- Cafe Brasil, Caffe Pergolesi, Bookshop Santa Cruz, the Food Bin, the Poet and the Patriot, the Red Room, the Hungry Slug, the Kresge Food Co-op, and last but not least, the Saturn Cafe
- the Sacred Grove, witch-shop and IWW collective, who showed me the path of the Goddess, and reminded me that spirituality can be whatever I make of it
- Colleen, Nicole, Anne, Amy, Jessica and Lisa. It didn't work out, but it was great fun while it lasted, and I'm better for having known you all. Love.
- And the view from campus. It's one of the most beautiful panoramas any city can boast. So many times I've just sat and gazed out, thinking how blessed I was to be here, in this place, in this moment.
......
[cries]
hmm, now I'm not so sure I want to leave. But I must. There's still a whole world out there, and I plan on discovering it.
You'll have fun in europe. And then you'll have new things to miss, when you leave.