You know what's awesome? Filling a box, closing it up, and dragging the role of packing tape across the top to seal it. Such tangible proof of accomplishment.

May 29

As hard as it is to feel this way in the moment, I think there's something to be appreciated in doing things that make you feel dumb. At least for me. I'm really uncomfortable with feeling dumb. It's good to be uncomfortable sometimes.

May 28

Something I've appreciated lately is that saying goodbye is a life skill like anything else. I was just thinking back to four years ago when we all left for college, and how hard those goodbyes were and how much we agonized over them. I'm not agonizing right now and I wondered, does that mean I don't care as much? But it doesn't. We get better at saying goodbye. And at realizing that everything is temporary. It's possible to drift and reconnect (something I've appreciated in particular lately over the last couple of weeks), and if you're close enough, you'll stay in touch. I don't think I had that kind of perspective four years ago. This move is so much scarier, but I am so much less scared.

May 27

(I missed yesterday's, but I'm determined to actually do one per day)

Branching out. A LOT of my close friends are either out of town or out of the country these days. It sucks, and I miss them. But I've been hanging out with a totally different group of people lately who I wouldn't have spent as much time with otherwise, and getting a chance to reconnect with other old friends. Which seems like an oddly fitting way to end my time in Madison.

Life's Small Pleasure of the Day: When things all fall into place. My moving plans were so down to the wire today, and I had no idea whether or where I could move on Friday, and all of a sudden it turns out our apartment is going be ready on the 5th! And even though that involves a lot of plan-switching on my part since I need to be out of here by the 2nd, so far everything is neatly lining up to make it happen, and I can still come down there and start my internship next week! New life philosophy: leave everything up to chance.

Life's Small Pleasures

So I have this old blog lying around, and I really don't use it for much of anything, and I suspect that very few people actually read it. And I got to thinking, hmm, what would be a good thing to actually post on here. And it seems like a fitting way to use this blog would be to provide myself and all 2 or so of you out there in internet-land with an observation of beauty in the world, or in my life. Sort of like a more personalized version of the blog 1000 Awesome Things (which is totally worth reading by the way). So, without further ado, something that made me happy today:

Experiencing the extremes of weather. This morning, I walked home from breakfast in pouring, stormy, warm rain. This afternoon I walked about 5 miles in the sunshine to go exploring in a different part of town. The sheer exhaustion from all the walking, paired with getting a walk in the rain AND a walk in the same day make this day feel very fulfilled.

T Minus 2 Weeks

Holy shit, I move in two weeks (in theory if everything goes as planned). My Facebook statuses have been noticeably sappier in the last couple of days. I am pleased with the last four years. That feeling won't last, for certain, but it will come back again. It's a roller coaster these days. As it should be.