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July 09, 2007
Departure
I will be departing for England tomorrow morning, or rather to Nashville, and then from New York to England, etc. etc., but it's been a pleasent last day in town. I had lunch with my roommate, Alex, and a friend at Las Margaritas which was tastey if somewhat more fattening than the previous destination of Sushi Nabe, which tragically doesn't open until four on Mondays. Then ran into GrandWeeRachel's little sister, and BFF to my roommate along with her boyfriend at Stone Cup, where we were waiting to meet up with a couple more buddies for coffee/smoothies. One friend is about to move to California for grad school, and I'm very touched she found time to see me today since I'll be gone her last weeks in Chattown.
It seems like everyone is entering a new phase of their lives, these days. People ask me what year in school I am, and it seems there are several answers I could give. There is the obvious, literal answer that next year will be my junior year. But then again, I'm a sophmore in the UHON program, since I wanted to take the freshman courses they offer and applied as such. And, yet again, most of my friends at college are seniors, super seniors, or alums, as I started auditing classes at UTC as a high school home-schooler when they were starting as freshman. It seems half my friends are applying to the next phase of their schooling, getting hitched, or taking a year off before doing one of those two things. The other half have just finished their freshman years of college, which is certainly chock full of change. I honestly feel like I am exactly where I am-- in between both experiances, both finally making some progress with the personal and social trials of the underclassman, and yet feeling weirdly out of place to have been taking college classes for four years and instead of looking up grad schools or banquet halls, to be looking up classes for the next two or three years of undergrad. It's all good though, I'm used to doing things differently wether on purpose or not, and I'm certainly very happy.
Here's to change, the shift in to the last half of summer break, and grand adventures. I'm sitting pretty right now, but by Wednesday I'm sure I'll be looking much like I did the first day in Switzerland in May:
Hopefully I'll be able to post photos while I'm away. If not, have a good month!
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