hi.

This here marks the first official blog entry of my first official blog.

       I'm going to try to introduce myself without coming off as an unbelievably neurotic kind of guy, but I think it's going to happen eventually before I actually publish this. Anyways, this is yet another Colorado Mountain College blog and this one in particular happens to be for the Spring Valley campus, which overlooks el montana de Sopris (also the name of our residence hall). Blogs tend to be kind of superficial so I'll try to avoid anything "me" out of it as much as possible, and try sticking to whateverz happening at CMC - I won't bore you with my personal life or spend paragraphs talking about what I did and only what I did at an event where there were other people besides me- I mean, who cares? That said, I look incredibly handsome in the reflection of my laptop monitor. I had to stop typing and wink at myself for a minute there because my good looks are just out of control today.

Anyways, as an introduction, I am Matt Duffy, subject of puberty and universal indifference.

And.....oh yeah, I'm from Denver. It's an all right city, more of a small big city than an actual "big city". I think it's the 24th biggest city in the U.S. It's about the same size as Boston, but intoxicated with yuppies instead of Irish. I lived there for near 10 years, and before that a couple small towns in different parts of California, most of my time in Mill Valley - just take the Golden Gate out of San Fran and head for the hills. You go to Mill Valley now and it's just granola-town...same applies for Boulder. Yuppievilles. Which is why I like Glenwood (Springs). It's a relatively touristy town (biggest hot-springs in the world!!!!!!!!!!!) , but hasnt been wiped out by the Whole Foods plague, yet.

Oh yeah, and before that I lived in a couple towns in Thailand, primarily Chiang Mai up north by Myanmar/China. Fun country - I'd suggest anyone visit, it's a nice place. The people are world renowned for being unbelievably nice (they will also steal your wallets, don't let your defenses totally down).  I've taken a couple trips back to the Motherland and while I wont deny it's everything you've heard it is (prostitution, smog, etc), it's also a beautiful country - real exotic stuff - and it's got the best Thai food you've ever had.Why? No clue..

And...oh. This blog was supposed to be about CMC. Well I'm sorry. Like I said I'll post whenever the happenings happen, but from my first month here I can tell you it's better than the pictures suggest. The campus is quaint, but absolutely beautiful - trees everywhere, and when I look up from my laptop monitor I can look straight down the valley into shapely rolling hills, dotted with spurts of orange houses atop a landscape that flows into even more mountains, and then boom, hits a row of hazy white peaks and only suggests it's part of a bigger scape. I mean, there's a lot of mountains in the Rocky Mountains. I know that sounds dumb but you really don't realize how many hills and heaping landmasses make up the range until you're actually in it. It's cool stuff - even if you're going to pass over going to CMC, I'd still suggest a trip to the Rockies... you don't really realize how much more powerful nature is than anything man can create until you see how big these things are. They just declare themselves against the sky.

And yeah, while it sounds like I'm glorifying the whole scenery because I'm being paid to write this, everything I've also said I believe to be true. And I have to fund my ChiaPets collection somehow.

And of course there's school, but that's the same everywhere. OK, maybe NYU offers a better film program than CMC, but also remember CMC is only a junior college - you come in, get your Associates in something, and get out. It's like every other community college, only it's better... you get more a of a traditonal college experience than living with your parents for another 2 years while attending classes alongside high-school dropouts, and it's still incredibly cheap. CMC-SV (Spring Valley) also offers great Animal Nursing (?) and Photography classes (renowned, actually), but I can't tell you all too much about those seeing that I'm in neither.

I'm here for my Associates of Arts, whereas I'll transfer to whatever college I can get a scholarship to and probably major in some kind of english or writing, or film if it's a possibility (screen-writing?). Even though I say that don't scoff at the notion as I've been writing pretty casually (as I talk, not as I submit essays) so far.... just saying. 

I should probably end this entry right about now. Future entries will be shorter.  And I'll update on the latest CMC happenings, or just stuff I've done around town, like hiking trails or whatever. It'll be a cool blog, I'm looking forward to you not reading it. Kidding.

Farewell.