losing my mind 2000 miles away

this weekend i had a little facebook chat with a coed across the country, we had a little chat about losing your mind in a different place. have you ever felt this strange feeling, in a way its amazing you stop stressing about your real life and begin to stress about the life going on in your mind, and it really is quiet fun though not quiet healthy. but then you get home, its summer ect. and what do you find, he is not quite as perfect as you thought he was, or in my friends case it is rather the opposite, and only 200 miles, but he goes home and your mind is left all alone, and if he was really that great when you were together then you would have done something, but he is just relatively good, good enough that you can create an incredible him in your mind, it is all rather complicated and yet it all comes down to a simple principle, find someone to fall in love with and then chose to live so far away you can only see them twice a year, make sure they are so academic you never worry about them straying, make sure they make you happy when you do see them for short spurts, and let your imagination take the rest, its sure to be better then reality. i happen to know this to be very true because it is my life, and though i began it thinking it was severely unhealthy, i find myself happier and less obsessed then i have ever been, which really is an accomplishment, for some one so unhinged as myself, 

besides that, swine influenza has broken out at my institution, and reeked havoc. its really quite a sight to see, on the one hand you have kids worried sick (pun) and on the other hand you have the kids hoping that one more will contract the virus and keep us all out of school for the week, it is keeping the hallway discussion active, and me annoyed which is healthy, i personally think/hope

1. that classes will not be canceled, please just let me finnish out the term
2. that swine influenza sounds an lot like seasonal influenza, and americans so love to be excited by deadly diseases
   

keep your spirits up love,