I've been back in good ol' Missourah for four days now; classes start tomorrow and I'm all settled back in. My first 36 hours back felt unnecessarily hectic! I had a million things to do, it took longer than expected to get back than I'd planned, my car was dead from being in the garage all summer long, the house was hot, I had to unpack, do laundry, clean--blah. But I made sure to get Jimmy Johns as I'd been craving it for about a month and a half, and a Sonic slush for the same reason. The last four nights were spent winding down and being locked away in my room. I knew I'd be happy to be back in my own room, in my own bed, with all of my own things, but I didn't realize how happy I'd be. My room is the most serene place I know, and on top of that, I often times genuinely enjoy hanging out with myself more than with others (because I make myself laugh and don't talk too much), so that was just the icing on the cake.
It was weird waking up Thursday morning. The view out my window, a big, green, open field bore a starkly contrasting from the view I had just the morning before of a laundry mat, ice cream house, and one of those old school silo-looking Brooklyn water towers. And the night before I'd fallen asleep to a muffled hum of distant traffic rather than the overbearing zipping of continuous traffic and horns and sirens. And I've been more aware of how slow life seems to move, as well as how much space there is. Actually, when I was driving down Broadway to Jimmy Johns, I saw the cars parked at angles in the spaces, and so many more cars could've fit if the parking spaces weren't oversized. I was taken aback by how large they were. Also, one day while I was driving I accidentally knocked on my brights, and could not, for the life of me, figure out how to turn them off!
At this point, finally being back to the regular ins and outs of my life, the last 3 months feel like an elaborate dream--completely unreal. But I can't much dwell on that because tomorrow it's back to work, AND it's my last first day of school EVER! wahoo! So, below is a link tomy summer condensed into approximately 6 minutes and 30 odd seconds. The video isn't an ode to my video editing skills, or anything new I learned, I just used iMovie to put music and pictures together, but it has some funny clips that I never shared in zee blog! I think the video is too big to put in the blog, but the link works! Enjoy! And blogging this summer made me remember how much I enjoy writing about whatever crossed my dirty little mind, so I'm pretty sure that I'll have another just-because blog that I'll update occasionally, so look out for that: " Sophisticated Ignorance" :)
And lastly, I don't know exactly who indulged in reading my blog over the summer, but thank you.
