i have my own life, and i am stronger than you know ...
it's dusk. the sun is low and the light is fading fast.
and it's late-august, already. so much has been going on lately. i've accomplished many things this summer: i've completed an internship, i've worked part-time, i've gotten a full-time job, and i'm in the final stages of signing a lease on my very-first apartment. i have re-affirmed and deepened my friendships. i've pondered a lot. i've relaxed. i've slept-in. i've learned to knit. i've turned twenty-three. i have thrown away (thoughts, and baggage). i have grown (in mind, in heart). i feel full, and i think i should.
and now, summer is almost over, and i'm about to embark on something very, very different. i am going to be a copy editor; i am going to be doing, basically, exactly what i wanted to do out of college. i'm moving, and although it's not to new york city--not yet--it's to a beautiful town by the beach. it will be the farthest-away i've ever lived from home, and it will be (at least semi-) permanent.
i'm happier and more confused than i've ever been in my whole-entire-life.
but i think this little anecdote will sum it all up:
last tuesday, after i'd interviewed for my job and was waiting with bated-breath to hear back about it, one of the people who was painting the outside of our house came to the back door and told me that the mailman had a package that i needed to sign for. i went outside and saw that it was addressed to me, so after i scrawled my name on the signature pad, i went inside and ripped open the small cardboard box.
inside that box was another box, and inside that box was a brand-new ipod nano--a black one. my cousin and his new-wife sent it to me as a very-very-very generous graduation/birthday present. i ripped open the packaging as carefully as possible, and when i turned the ipod over, i saw that matthew and kristin had engraved a quote on the back:
"for the times they are a changin"
about five minutes later, the magazine called and told me that i got the job.
the times are, indeed, a-changin'.
and it's late-august, already. so much has been going on lately. i've accomplished many things this summer: i've completed an internship, i've worked part-time, i've gotten a full-time job, and i'm in the final stages of signing a lease on my very-first apartment. i have re-affirmed and deepened my friendships. i've pondered a lot. i've relaxed. i've slept-in. i've learned to knit. i've turned twenty-three. i have thrown away (thoughts, and baggage). i have grown (in mind, in heart). i feel full, and i think i should.
and now, summer is almost over, and i'm about to embark on something very, very different. i am going to be a copy editor; i am going to be doing, basically, exactly what i wanted to do out of college. i'm moving, and although it's not to new york city--not yet--it's to a beautiful town by the beach. it will be the farthest-away i've ever lived from home, and it will be (at least semi-) permanent.
i'm happier and more confused than i've ever been in my whole-entire-life.
but i think this little anecdote will sum it all up:
last tuesday, after i'd interviewed for my job and was waiting with bated-breath to hear back about it, one of the people who was painting the outside of our house came to the back door and told me that the mailman had a package that i needed to sign for. i went outside and saw that it was addressed to me, so after i scrawled my name on the signature pad, i went inside and ripped open the small cardboard box.
inside that box was another box, and inside that box was a brand-new ipod nano--a black one. my cousin and his new-wife sent it to me as a very-very-very generous graduation/birthday present. i ripped open the packaging as carefully as possible, and when i turned the ipod over, i saw that matthew and kristin had engraved a quote on the back:
"for the times they are a changin"
about five minutes later, the magazine called and told me that i got the job.
the times are, indeed, a-changin'.