A rush, and a push, and the land is ours

For what its worth, 2010 has been a very strange year. I've had some not so great times, as well as many more really awesome times. There are moments from the past year that I'd definitely like to forget, and a boat-load more that I'd absolutely love for the opportunity to re-live.

These past few days have been especially weird because this is the first August in 4 years that I'm not putting the finishing touches on packing up my stuff to move back to Fordham. This is a very, very weird feeling. The fact that something like college exists kind of spoils us 20-somethings, I think. Never again will we get to move out, and live, pretty much unsupervised, with basically all of our closest friends...for four years straight. I can't speak for everyone, but the friends that I made became basically a second family. We definitely acted like a family. Some of us definitely fought like family members, but mostly things were pretty peaceful. We spent the "holidays" together. We had a lot of great times. And perhaps more importantly, we were there for each other through the more difficult times, even if we didn't know it.

I guess I'm writing this as a way to cope with the fact from here on out things are different. I definitely plan on living with a few of you again as soon as possible, but realistically I don't think we'll all be able to be within a 5 minute walk of each other. Also, I think this is the graduation entry that I was never able to finish. The transition from college to post-college is...interesting, to say the least. From here on out it gets pretty real I'd say. Jobs, graduate school...squalor. You name it. It can be anything, except, of course, for college. That's finished.

I wish I had some positive fortune cookie like statement to conclude this late-night rambling session, but I do not. Besides saying thanks, maybe? I don't know. I'll have everything figured out very soon! College 2.0?

peace, love, & homies,

m.w.w.