curing isolation with removal?

man, this sucks. it's my senior year and i feel isolated from my campus. it isn't difficult for me to pinpoint the reasons why i feel completely distant from reed. i live in a house a mile or so away, but this isn't the defining factor. it's ultimate, the way i've been pulled all over the country over the last few months, with no time here in portland for a weekend since the end of september. i've been to arizona, salt lake city, sarasota, burlington, eugene, and spent the few weekends here in portland playing ultimate for four hours a day each of two days. where is campus life when this happens?

it has to revolve around classes, and since i have a relatively minor workload this semester (with one class that meets for three hours once a week and another that meets quite briefly on tuesday and thursday, with few requirements), i don't have to be on campus that often for school work. at least not for required school work.

add to this the fact that i have been spending most of my time with a woman who recently graduated from reed (and as a result wants to keep a fair amount of distance between herself and the campus), and i feel like reed and i have grown apart.

i need to work on this thesis. i want it to be good. and not just good enough to graduate, but good enough to be stimulating to future wanderers through the thesis tower.

so what to do?

remove myself. not from reed, not at all. i'm going to remove myself from everything else. i have turned off my cell phone and placed it in joe's sock drawer. i've resolved not to sign onto aol instant messenger for the duration of the week. my only contact with the world outside the bubble will be through e-mail. i want a week without anything to distract me.

i don't want a phone call in the middle of the night or a text message while i'm working on my thesis. i don't want to be thinking of who has signed online and what frivolous conversation i can construct to procrastinate for hours. i want to focus on my work, on my college, and my life.

forgive my bluntness, but this week, i want these distractions to fuck off.

here's hoping i can last the week, and some profound understanding will come from my removal.