LJ Idol Week 9: Marching Orders
All my entries this season are based on the webcomic I.C.Q., of which I am one of the co-creators, together with shurhaian. This week's host is Blake; you can read an introduction to him in my Introduction entry. Comments can be addressed to either myself or Blake. He'll answer unless doing so would spoil the comic.
Blake, wearing a white button-up shirt, is leaning over and reaching into a cardboard box marked "Clothes"
I never realized how different it was going to be to make plans without my parents until uni was practically breathing down our necks. Even when we've done things "on our own" before, Charlie and I, we had the input of my parents, or his, for some of the practical arrangements. We took a short road trip over the summer, and his mom wrote us a list of things we needed to bring. My mom pulled some strings and got us a loaner car from her shop. We planned the trip ourselves, but we planned it around their advice.
When I asked Mom about getting our stuff out there, she said something to the effect of "you should look into renting a moving truck, then." It was like, beyond pledging money for rent and expenses, my parents wanted to say "you're an adult, now, take care of yourself." And to be honest, for a while I kind of felt like a baby bird being pushed out of the nest. What was I going to do?
Planning is a lot harder when you don't have the structure of parental advice to build around. Charlie's parents weren't more help. At least my parents helped me look at places to stay when we were looking at colleges, so I narrowly escaped the cruel fate of living in the dorms. (Though maybe, in hindsight, having met Sarah, I should've taken my chances...)
In the end we did make it there alright, even if Charlie is a worthless navigator.
Written for the "Home Game" of Season 7 of therealljidol. Please visit the topic to see what the current contestants have written on the subject of Marching Orders.
Blake, wearing a white button-up shirt, is leaning over and reaching into a cardboard box marked "Clothes"
I never realized how different it was going to be to make plans without my parents until uni was practically breathing down our necks. Even when we've done things "on our own" before, Charlie and I, we had the input of my parents, or his, for some of the practical arrangements. We took a short road trip over the summer, and his mom wrote us a list of things we needed to bring. My mom pulled some strings and got us a loaner car from her shop. We planned the trip ourselves, but we planned it around their advice.
When I asked Mom about getting our stuff out there, she said something to the effect of "you should look into renting a moving truck, then." It was like, beyond pledging money for rent and expenses, my parents wanted to say "you're an adult, now, take care of yourself." And to be honest, for a while I kind of felt like a baby bird being pushed out of the nest. What was I going to do?
Planning is a lot harder when you don't have the structure of parental advice to build around. Charlie's parents weren't more help. At least my parents helped me look at places to stay when we were looking at colleges, so I narrowly escaped the cruel fate of living in the dorms. (Though maybe, in hindsight, having met Sarah, I should've taken my chances...)
In the end we did make it there alright, even if Charlie is a worthless navigator.
Written for the "Home Game" of Season 7 of therealljidol. Please visit the topic to see what the current contestants have written on the subject of Marching Orders.