About Reunions

I wasn't extremely enthused about going to the reunion at Eleana's house; I was definitely more interested in sitting on my butt and playing Sins of a Solar Empire, but I went, and after the initially awkward I-don't-know-most-of-you-people bit it was fun. Apples to Apples is a wonderful icebreaker, though I do suck at it. Apparently handcuffs can't be as sensual as friction. Boo. Anyway, it was fun, and I'm glad that I went, and to some extent I'm sad that I didn't go to WCATY this summer, but I think I'm feeling more nostalgic about that because it's been so long since I actually was at WCATY, whereas Terra was still relatively recent. Nonetheless, there's something to be said for WCATY; mostly that WCATY was serious nerd camp, whereas EPGY (at least in Terra) people were intelligent, but not nerds in the traditional sense. Everyone was far, far to outgoing to really be a "nerd", properly speaking--not to say that's a bad thing. It's not even that surprising that all of the writers were the most sociable of everyone, and given how little contact we had with all of the other houses, I can't speak for the overall nerdiness of EPGY. I'm not really sure where I'm going with this post...
I guess what I'm trying to hit at is that when I think about the dorm at St. Norbert, I really, really miss it, in all of its shitty/scuzziness. Terra, not so much. I sorta feel bad, because we had so muc fun, and I think the more removed I am from it, the more I will remember it fondly, but still. That deep-seated ache isn't there. And it's not there for the first year that I was at WCATY either. I think that there was just something special, for me, about that second year, and I can't really say what it is, but I keep thinking about the courtyard and missing it pretty badly.