Swing life away…with a hammer.
Once a couple of days passed, the whole being home thing has gotten a little better. I’m still not completely thrilled about being home – with the exception of seeing all of my high school friends – but I’m able to tolerate it more. Thank God for Facebook, Skype, and text messaging, right?
Today was more catching up and a trip down memory lane. I went to visit my old high school and the teachers me, Heather, Beckie, and Steve went to visit were exactly the same as we left them a mere six months ago. I don’t really reckon I’ll visit them again; I feel you can only do that for so long until the remaining high schoolers get the idea of “Just let it go, already.” I can name a couple of people that still haven’t completely let high school go right off the top of my head. And after lunch at Panera with the aforementioned, Brian, Keith, Sam, and Danielle and a very extensive trip to Barnes & Noble, I definitely have no regrets about telling work I would be unable to work today.
A few hours passed to present time. I looked onto Kristina’s bed – which I’m leaning on as I type this – and I saw the mini flashlight I bought at Five Below, a stop I wasn’t originally planning to make. It’s small but it has a lot of power packed into it. I stared at it and thought, “I really want to go for a walk right now.”
If I was at Rowan, this would be perfectly plausible. I’d just shut the computer down, bundle up, grab the flashlight and my iPod and head out of Willow and off around campus. Here, I can’t do that. I’d hear everything from “You’re not going out there, it’s pitch-black!” to “It’s freezing outside!” The leash attached to my neck would not let me stray. I wish I could just go walk around and ramble my thoughts to Jello – the most frequent listener of those – but that can’t happen. He’s in Mountainside, I’m in Hamilton, and there’s no way in hell my parents would let me go out walking around my neighborhood by myself at night (or drive to his house that late at night).
So yeah, to add to the campus, all of A+, late night randomness, Fred, and the independence, I also really freaking miss those late night walks. And just because I got a stupid little flashlight. On the plus side, it will be extremely helpful for those late night hangouts with the band geeks. Who knows what’ll go on there….
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