{"id":826,"date":"2017-09-27T14:33:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T19:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=826"},"modified":"2017-09-27T14:33:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T19:33:57","slug":"friday-night-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2017\/09\/27\/friday-night-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming to MSA has been one of the weirdest experiences of my life. It&#8217;s not just the classes or the people or even the decent food that makes it odd- it&#8217;s the fact that I, without a doubt, am one of the most claustrophobic people in the universe. Now, I don&#8217;t mean in the sense of I can&#8217;t be in enclosed spaces or crammed in a large crowd but in the way that I can only stay in Wesson for two days, <strong>max<\/strong>, before my blood feels like it&#8217;s boiling and my fingers itch to get behind the wheel and just <em>go.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seeing the same thing day after day and being stuck in the same routine tends to wear on my nerves faster than I care to admit, so being here has been strange. I have only felt the slightest itch in my hands and my blood has only attempted to simmer on less than a few occasions. You might could add this strange occurrence to the reality that I&#8217;ve only dormed here for two weeks instead of the nearly six that everyone else has had to deal with, but still. Being in a place for more than a few hours tends to send my skin into jitters.<\/p>\n<p>The only place that I can&#8217;t seem to spend enough time in is my own home. And, in no way, do I want to even attempt to send the idea that I feel as if MSA is my home. And writing that sounds sort of harsh but that&#8217;s a discussion for another post. I just find it odd that, though I seem to stir here, its not the same \u00a0as if I was stuck in Wesson. Not Wesson school, but Wesson as a town- a whole place. Even though I can drive from corner to corner and feel better, it&#8217;s not the same thing as heading out and down the highway towards Brookhaven or Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>My point is: for me, this whole experience as an MSA student has been pretty odd. Maybe the fact that I have my best friend here helps, or that I have made plenty of friends in order to occupy my time so I don&#8217;t realize that I am utterly trapped here has had something to do with it. Either way, I&#8217;m glad that I don&#8217;t have to constantly feel the pull of some far-off adventure while I&#8217;m here. The only exception, of course, being Fridays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming to MSA has been one of the weirdest experiences of my life. It&#8217;s not just the classes or the people or even the decent food that makes it odd- it&#8217;s the fact that I, without a doubt, am one of the most claustrophobic people in the universe. Now, I don&#8217;t mean in the sense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2017\/09\/27\/friday-night-lights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday Night Lights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}