This is why I haven’t posted in 2 1/2 weeks.
The Bloggess is pretty much my hero. I’m pretty sure I’m afflicted with the disease as well.
I apologize for the lack of posting. My computer was on the fritz for a while, and my computer chair was buried under a stack of quilts. Last weekend, though, we did a semi-spring cleaning (that’s where you get most of it done but the leftovers sit in your hallway and living room for a week afterward not getting cleaned up). We moved my desk out to the living room, and put the quilts in the closet where they belong. Now I actually use my computer a little! It’s crazy. Of course Ryan thinks that me looking at facebook for 10 minutes is his chance to run off and start playing a computer game that will take at least an hour. Meh. At least I can watch House Hunters and Gossip Girl while he’s doing that. Although I should be finishing up that leftover cleaning. Maybe tomorrow.
It’s Sam’s birthday party this weekend, so there are a ton of friends coming to town, and I am SO EXCITED. Also, we might end up the night at a bar that’s only a couple blocks from our apartment, which is pretty much the best thing ever, because neither of us has to drive! We’ve already stumbled home drunk from that bar once, and considering we don’t drink (a lot) that often and we haven’t even lived here a year that’s the college equivalent of doing it once a week.
Do you guys get super-nostalgic for college? Because that happens to me A LOT. I LOVED college. I loved hanging out with friends, having free time in the middle of the day, working on homework that was challenging sometimes and a total bore others, all of it. I miss all of the friends we have that used to live in Duluth with us that we now only see a few times a year (if that). I even miss having almost all of our weekends taken up with playing in pep band. And I’ve been out of college for 6 years almost. Sometimes I wish I had stretched out college to 5 years instead of graduating in 4. But, as was pointed out to me recently while talking about that, my scholarships would have expired and I would have a LOT more student loan debt. Plus, I wouldn’t have moved to Delaware for a year, and that was one of the best things I ever did. Seriously – Delaware is pretty much awesome.
Well, it’s about time for bed. That’s all I’ve got.
about 1 year ago
It’s like we need a telethon or something.
about 1 year ago
Believe it or not, the more years that pass since college, the more nostalgic I get for the work and my professors! The social life, not so much, but I’d love to go back and sit in on some of my classes, especially if I could do it knowing what I know now.
about 1 year ago
I get nostalgic for college. It’s pretty much the only thing I get nostalgic about. I loved it, too. In fact, I went to my hometown (where I went to college) last month for my grandmother’s memorial service and the only thing I MADE SURE HAPPENED was that I got to the college bookstore so I could buy a college sweatshirt that I never had the money for when I was in college. Now I have a college sweatshirt, my three oldest kids have college sweatshirts, my youngest has a college T-shirt (there were no sweats in size 2T), my husband has a college ball-cap and I have a college coffee mug and car window sticker. I may have gone a little overboard, but I MISS IT. And I graduated 16 years ago. Walking the campus, all I could think was that when my kids were grown and moved out, I was going back to school.
about 1 year ago
ok first, thank heavens you are back to posting. i was starting to think i needed to look into your situation of well-being! second, i can’t say i’m that hooped up about college. yes, it was fun hanging out with my friends, sleeping on the couches in the student union, and eating papa john’s pizza as many tuesdays as possible. oh yeah, driving the zamboni was fun, too! but as i’ve debated what to do with my life from here on out one thing that i can say i don’t want to do is go back to school. my goal was to have all my school loans paid off in 3 years after graduation. i did it and have NO DESIRE to be that in debt ever again!!! also, i studied more in college than i ever did in high school and still managed to fail plenty of exams. what’s up with that?? its not that i’m anti-learning. i’d be all for it if someone wanted to teach me something outside of a classroom – without tests and grades. i’m not sure what i want to do, but i know at least one thing i don’t want to do!
about 1 year ago
I would love to go back to that life as long as I made as much as I do now and tuition were free. Wait… that’s kind of what I’m doing, only without all the friends. You all need to get on top of getting a job at the university! ;)