tomorrow
it feels too soon for me to be going back to school, but alhamdulillah.
and you know what? tv can be absolutely ridiculous. when you haven’t watched it for a certain amount of time and then you switch it on, it can be downright stupid. i know i know- insight of the millenium, but still. that roomstore commercial is awful (but the mastercard one with the 3 dancing kids is tooooo good).
i still have the world to pack. because i am a stuff monster. too much stuff.  and i leave tomorrow after jummah (2:30ish)…which is way too soon. just to, you know, emphasize. blacksburg? already? not to mention how different the whole town and atmosphere is going to be. i don’t like different :\ i mean, initially. eventually sometimes you come to realize that ‘different’ is so much better than ‘the same.’ it’s just the adjustment that can turn me off. i don’t know yet how i’m going to cope with my little old college town being ‘different’ from the previous 3 years, but i’m sure we’ll all manage just fine.
also, isna. which is labor day weekend. which is another thing that is coming up way, too, soon. for once i booked a ticket leaving out of the roanoke airport, so that’ll be interesting. going from relatively sleepy roanoke straight to o’hare might be a bit of a jolt. but it is still fun- traveling. even if it is just a domestic flight. because if youve forgotten, malaysia didnt work out. (im sorry; have i mentioned that it sometimes takes me a while to get over things? especially things that i really really really want?)
one time (of being disappointed) sticks out in my mind. we had driven all the way from blacksburg to the kings dominion (theme park) in richmond. only to be told that the park was rained out. no guarantees of any rides being open…for who knows how long.  i was *so* mad, and i distinctly remember looking at the volcano rollercoaster at a distance from the parking lot, watching the flames go up, thinking how unfair this was. i was also annoyed that my group decided to just go to the local mall instead. yes, i was bitter. about 2 hours later we somehow managed to re-group our group (not easy in a mall!), drive back to the park, and get on every single rollercoaster at least once (if not 2 or 3 times) within the span of one and a half hours. precisely *because* of the rain- most people had ditched the park by then and there were no lines. amazing.
so now that we’ve established how shallow my life lessons can be… kidding. sort of. i mean, you can take something petty like my rollercoaster example and apply it to bigger badder things in life, and i think that it still holds true. so it really is ok that i didnt go to malaysia even though im not sure yet why it’s ok. blacksburg will also be ok. and so on and so forth.