Delirity

In 3 weeks I move. Currently I have my sweaters and DVDs packed and my books are ready to be packed. In some ways I feel like there’s a lot I’ve wanted to do with packing, but haven’t gotten to it… but really, I have been weeding out a lot of things that I won’t be taking with me, it’s just that it’s still too early to box up most of my things!

But I am keeping busy. Between working on packing, reading, going to the gym, riding my bike, cleaning, cooking and attempting to see people, I really do stay busy.

By they way, I know that most of the pictures on my site have disappeared. You’ll have to play along for the moment. I ran out of space where I’m hosted and it was affecting my email service, so I deleted things hoping that it would help. I’ll put them back up as soon as I have time and access to dial up (that’ll be after the move at some point).

shannon_gabby_nicole, originally uploaded by delirity.

I graduated officially this past Sunday. Since I’ve gotten back I have: worked 12 hours driving cars from a tent sale to a car dealership, put away all the clothes that I brought home from school, made 1001 phone calls to get things set up for moving next month (I think we’re going to rent a Ford Expedition and cross our fingers everything fits in the back), watched tv, napped a lot, gone for 1 bike ride… It’s busy. Really busy. I didn’t expect it to be so bad… how could I not have suspected?!

Now if I can just find time to work on the journal article…

I haven’t done any work for classes since two Sundays ago (May 2nd). I finished classes on May 4th. The past week has been spent reading books, watching movies, packing, eating with friends, and sleeping. But now it’s time that I’m back to work again, this time working on turning my thesis into a publishable article. Even this should be done with in the next week or two, meaning that I really am almost done with my institutionally coordinated academic pursuits. As good as it should feel, it hasn’t actually sunken in yet. I’m a little sad that it will most likely take until October (when Jesse goes back to school but I don’t) to fully realize that I’m finished.

I’m not even sure that I’ll really understand the whole moving out of state thing until I’ve been there longer than a summer break. It’s strange to me to think that in 5-6 weeks I’ll be putting all my belongings (and Jesse’s) into some cars and driving them up to Washington. I think it will be a nice change to move there, but it’ll be the first time I’ll be more than a few hours away from everything that I’ve always called home (except Jesse). I’m sure I’ll be fine and that I’ll love it and have a wonderful time, but I just wonder how hard it’s going to be to be away from all my friends and family. At least we’ll have Jesse’s family up there.

Really, I’m just in a state of disbelief. I’ve waited so long for Jesse and I to be done with school, be able to move in together, get married, blah blah blah… and it’s all actually coming up. It’s the strangest feeling… but I’m excited to see how it unfolds.