whirlwind day

moving out was a blur... with 3 friends and my parents helping, it took less than an hour to get all of my belongings out of my apartment and into the moving van. two more friends showed up to try and help right when we were finishing up, too. i wonder if i will be able to find that sense of pure giving of oneself in minneapolis.

cris and katie's wedding today was gorgeously sweltering. whenever i'm around people from the first couple years of my time at manchester, i become strangely nostalgic. it feels like so long ago... far longer ago than the last two years of college. it made me realize that the bonds i've formed in my short 23 years here in indiana will truly stay with me forever. or so i hope. and when i think through all the people from manchester with whom i have stayed in touch (in one form or another), i realize how connected i will always be to that place. whether or not those people really know the inner me, it feels like they do. and sometimes that sense of home provides me with such comfort i know i can make it through anything.

now is a time that i would read through my sociology portfolio and reminisce about my time at manchester. ...if only i knew where that thing was in the massive pile of my belongings the garage has become.

after my last class ever at manchester: