music: “Ophelia,” Natalie Merchant
Everyone is off to college. If they haven’t started yet, most of them start this week. I am having mixed emotions. I don’t really wish I was doing it too, because I am not behind at all, and who doesn’t love sleeping in every day.
I am still planning on working until late September when I’m moving to Miami for awhile. Who knows where I’ll go in the Spring, but I’ll probably be back in school by that time. I am, after all, finished with my fall semester waaay ahead of time, so I’m not really behind at all. I’m ahead, if anything.
And something that makes me feel better is the fact that all summer, when everyone else was sleeping in, I was focusing on super-intense five-week college courses, and I made nothing lower than Bs all summer. I even managed to squeeze some As in there. Yay me. So, despite my ever-illogical emotions, I really have no reason to feel this odd emptiness.
And yet, there it is..