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Oct. 17th, 2007 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prosodicI think I'm finished with all the major chores. Lance never got around to a pretty big one, and that was to go into the garage and clean up the grill and our bikes. But I took care of the bikes today in between bouts of rain. The grill will just have to stay here. We can probably give it away once he scrubs some of the gunk off of it. The movers won't take it in its current state, and he was thinking of giving it away anyway.
He's working late this evening, but I expect him home within an hour or so. I imagine he'll be up most of the night finishing pre-moving tasks. The only thing I have left to do is to go through the house again and hide things that we don't want the movers to take. But I can do that in the morning before they get here. I already took care of most of these things.
The walls are bare. And by this time tomorrow, the floors will be too.
I've spent a good deal of the day reflecting back on these past 4 years (and even a bit further back than that). It's mostly been really good. I consider myself to be incredibly blessed to have had this experience. There are days when I just want to be away from here, and those days are increasing as we get closer to the day that we leave. But then I think about my friends and how scared I am of losing them. I thought I had good, solid friendships when I left grad school, but one by one, all those people slipped away from me. I don't want this to happen with my friends here. But I will do my part...I always do. When I say that I'll stay in touch, I absolutely mean it. And I'm hopeful about my friends...I think their loyalty is just as sincere as mine.
I shed a few tears today, thinking about how this stage of my life is ending. Of course, I didn't see as many places as I would've liked and I never fully integrated myself into this culture (if that's even possible), but I have still seen and done more than a lot of people, and I can be thankful for that.
He's working late this evening, but I expect him home within an hour or so. I imagine he'll be up most of the night finishing pre-moving tasks. The only thing I have left to do is to go through the house again and hide things that we don't want the movers to take. But I can do that in the morning before they get here. I already took care of most of these things.
The walls are bare. And by this time tomorrow, the floors will be too.
I've spent a good deal of the day reflecting back on these past 4 years (and even a bit further back than that). It's mostly been really good. I consider myself to be incredibly blessed to have had this experience. There are days when I just want to be away from here, and those days are increasing as we get closer to the day that we leave. But then I think about my friends and how scared I am of losing them. I thought I had good, solid friendships when I left grad school, but one by one, all those people slipped away from me. I don't want this to happen with my friends here. But I will do my part...I always do. When I say that I'll stay in touch, I absolutely mean it. And I'm hopeful about my friends...I think their loyalty is just as sincere as mine.
I shed a few tears today, thinking about how this stage of my life is ending. Of course, I didn't see as many places as I would've liked and I never fully integrated myself into this culture (if that's even possible), but I have still seen and done more than a lot of people, and I can be thankful for that.
