I sit here on my bed as a terribly hot day drifts into the evening, enjoying the breeze from the ceiling fan and listening to my cat breath next to me (and she has a chronic sinus infection - very attractive, I know, so she's not so much breathing as wheezing. She is perfect). I'm only two sleeps away from stepping on a plane that will carry me north, and into the next blank chapter of my life.
For the oddball stranger who stumbled here thinking this was some awesome travel blog (no doubt impressed by my amazing header) you can find a delightful and humble description of myself and my journey thusfar here. That and the aforementioned header pretty much say it all - scaredy-cat girl from Virginia, heading out into the great blue yonder. (Which, according to The Google, is about death. Soo... that's not happening. I guess I'm heading into the just-okay blue yonder).
I've spent the last six years (for the most part) living in Washington, DC, taking classes for the entire time - masochist! - and working fairly constantly, in at least one position but mostly two+ and a volunteer gig at the same time, for the past five. That all changed in May, when I switched my tassel to the other side (for the second time at my university) and clocked out for the last time. One speedy game of Tetris-packing of my dad's truck later and I was charging out of the city, hemmed in by every single one of my possessions and rolling down back country roads to my hometown in southeastern Virginia (where, amusingly, we almost hit a wild turkey so large my mother thought it was a dinosaur). Quite a change from six years ago, when little 18-year old Kristen first pulled into DC on a rainy September day and then spent the next four months crying from homesickness.
So here's all-grown-up 24 year old Kristen now... living again with my parents... in their empty-nest city condo... the life, I tell you! It's also a fairly sobering experience to realize every single one of your lifelong possessions can fit into one closet. Saves on storage space, though.
For the intermission of my life, between graduation/livin'/workin' the DC life - which any self-respecting Washingtonian will tell you basically involves lots of happy hours and brunches - and what happens next, I've been happily ensconced in my parent's lovely condo next to the river. My month of sloth relaxation has involved reading like it's going out of style (not to brag or anything but I think I've read about fifteen books in the past month. I'm quite literate. AND humble.), tracking where my cats spend every hour of the day and wandering in for belly rubs, and watching SVU.
But - all good things must come to an end, or at least evolve into equally-as-good or better things! And so, as this publishes, I'll be bopping around Boston, seeing dear old friends, making new ones, and digging into my next step and the rest of my career and LIFE! It's strange - I feel more like that scared little 18 year old than the 24 year old that I have become. I guess that's what living the life of luxury in your parent's house will get you, eh?
Stay tuned, because it only gets more exciting (and hopefully less wordy) from here. There will be tales of adventure, I'm bound to cry at least once, and I will definitely be using paratheses way too often.
P.S. I won't be talking specifically about my employer, cause, you know. Privacy 'n' stuff. But you probably already know it anyway.
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