My readership is very down. I think that once people moved out of their dorm rooms and further away from high speed connections, checking my blog hourly became less of a priority. I predict that the craziness of things between winding down and just getting home will probably leave me dizzy and avoid the computer for a few days. anyway, since no one is really reading this anymore, I am just going to relay my day through a recycled email to Jack.
it's nice to be home. my father and I took a "new" adventerous route home, as both of us wanted a viable excuse to skip the party my mother was going to. So we drove straight down route 7 into Williamstown Mass. It was such a beautiful day and really, my favorite landscape (aside from the Hudson River views in Hudson River School Paintings, visible from my Aunt's house or parks in Westchester) are the rolling hills of Western Mass, especially around Northampton, or Williamstown / North Adams as I learned today. The drive home was so beautiful, we took an 180 degree hairpin turn on a twisty mountain road, but it was nice to change up the boring ride and only took about an hour longer than it should have. We got back just before 7. all of my stuff fit in the car and it probably took an hour to get it packed and about 4 mins to unpack the car into the garage.
My sister was at an all day concert and my mother was at said picnic. Aside from my bedding, I am caught up on the five loads of laundry I had piling up. I watched "When Harry Met Sally" and basically enjoyed doing nothing. My mother has finalized her decision to do the kitchen in yellow so we talked about that and she showed me the fabric she wants for her custom made drapes. She is lately very into home improvement projects and has been picking out marble for the bathroom floor, I have no idea what inspired this. I also want to say that she is getting new bedroom furniture, but I can never tell what she's really doing until it just gets done, but she mentioned looking with intent to buy. Basically, when my sister made the decision to take a fullride to college it probably cleared up plenty of cash for her to play with. who knows, really, I am not here enough to really keep tabs on it all, but I know she got a handsome bonus this year (I think 9/11 was generally good for the insurance industry). so begins a week at home. need to call around tomorrow and see if I can get appointments for hair, glasses, and the dentist... and the errands like getting a new pair of shoes and a couple of random wardrobe necessities.
hope your day was equally as relaxing and filled with leisure... my mom asked about gradation and I filled her in on remaining details. I am glad to be home and still generally ambivalent about the rippling effects of the whole "graduation" process, like what next year will really be like without you especially. Overall every year is so different from the others, this doesn't seem as daunting as coming back after soph year when Justin and Kaia were abroad, Renee transferred, and Liz was taking time off. every year has been so different from the others that all i can say is that next year will probably be unpredictable too. it's useless to put too much thought into it. this reaction surprised her, I think, because I wasn't overly distraught, or as you put it this morning it is surprising how unemotional and apathetic you felt. whatever, moping doesn't make it better or change who has left and who is coming back, and really, I was tired and homesick and just wanted to come home.
I think I am going to go to bed in my own bed now and maybe watch a little discovery channel before I go to bed, how I've missed my nightly documentary uncovering some fascinating secret about the prision system or American justice.
posted by lmjasinski at 1:43 AM
