One year what?
I'm tampering with the time stamp on this as I tend to do when I forget to update.
May 15, 2006...it's now been one entire year since I walked across the uh, union steps in the freezing cold that was Ripon College class of 2005's graduation.
Has it already been one year? Sure as hell doesn't seem possible.
This time one year ago, I was packing up my life's existance, saying goodbye to people I would never see again, and slightly choking up while driving the little red escort away from Ripon. Wow.
And life now? Well, it has its ups and downs.
I must confess that while I really don't like my job, I do like that I'm not in school. I really didn't like school when it boils down to it. I didn't particularly like sitting in class (whether it was interesting or not but more so if it was boring and/or I was less than enthused by the topic). I really didn't like homework. I didn't like college drama. I didn't particularly like living in the dorms, but hey, it's an existance. Yes. Looking back there were a lot of things I didn't like about college that I was not too terribly sad to bid farewell too.
But I do miss school. Not that class or homework thing, but I miss the late night camaraderie in Rodman (especially in Rodman)...burning the midnight oil and procrastinating on homework or practicing with other people. We had a common amusement/distaste for the creepy security guard and we all had similar amusing stories of hearing how he used to play guitar and was in a band...
I also miss my friends. I miss staying up late with people (and not in rodman)...maybe in the hallway maybe in someone's room, but staying up late and being stupid or not being stupid. Staying up til 4 am or maybe 6:30am and just hanging out. It didn't particularly matter if we had things to do because we always almost slept through our 8ams anyway.
I miss that all of the bars were within walking distance. There's just something about knowing that you have to either a-stay sober enough to drive home later or just drink it all right away and sober up through the night or b- sucker someone into driving you home and staying sober all night.
And I miss that all the bars were in walking distance AND all of the people I would go to the bars with were also within walking distance. I work with a great group of people - but let's face it, we're spread throughout the Fox Valley: Appleton, Green Bay, Oconto (FALLS), Kaukauna, etc etc. And it's not like Appleton and Green Bay are far from each other, but in the context of going out drinking, they're plenty far.
And yes, periodically I miss classes too. I miss learning stuff. My life is monotonous these days, Mondays and Fridays are interchangeable.
I sure as hell miss the workouts from college - the "how fast can I walk from Todd Wehr to Rodman as I only have 8 minutes before my next class starts and it's all uphill???" Ahh yes, who needed to go to the gym in college anyway!!!
But, life goes on...and college does come to an end.
You learn to miss it.
But thank god it's over.
For all that I miss about college, I don't think I'd ever go through it again.
- posted by L. @ 11:46 PM