Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the last edition of Fun Fact Tuesday from Jackson. Yes, I’m breathing into a brown paper bag. No, I’m not happy that I just typed that sentence.
1. I’m going to be a whiny, miserable, crying mess on Friday afternoon when I leave Jackson. I’m sure there will be many a blog post brewing about this coming weekend: leaving home, moving in, and starting over. None of these things is remotely appealing, and that is just something I am probably going to have to file in the “suck it up and deal with it” category.
2. I am thrilled, really and truly and overwhelmingly, about my new job. I think, speaking solely about my professional life, a fresh start is exactly what I need after last year. I just wish my social life didn’t have to be a victim of my new job.
3. There’s a singer-songwriter from Memphis named Lauren McCuistion. One of my first good friends in college, Rachel, who will get a blog post of her very own one day, introduced me to her music our freshman year. I was checking out her MySpace page the other day and read one of her blog entries. There’s a line or two in that blog on her MySpace page that jumped out at me:
I have wondered often in the past few months what I have to show for being twenty-four years old. I am unmarried, unsettled, still wandering around in so many ways …
Reading that helped me put things in perspective. Whether I realize it or not, I think that’s what goes through my head quite a bit these days and something that will, without any doubt whatsoever, go through my head the entire six and a half hours from Jackson to my new apartment in Virginia.
1 Comment
July 8, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Congrats on the new job and the new apartment! Getting started is the hard part….I just moved back to my mom’s after graduating and living on my own for over 2 years. Moving forward is so scary and exciting….your gonna love it. (I’m headed there myself ;)