Time for a change

You may have noticed the change in the appearance of this blog. I decided that, after more than three years, it was time to change things up and try a different template. After all, everything else in my life is changing.

I was looking online today to see about plane tickets to Boston. Scary thought. My departure is becoming more and more real, and I'm finally beginning to feel the long-expected resistance to change ingrained inside me working its way out to try and make me regret my decision to leave South Dakota so far behind me. Don't take that the wrong way. I'm thrilled to be going to Simmons, and excited to be living in Boston, it's just that it's starting to scare me, and I wish it wasn't quite so far from the safety of South Dakota. Katie, the thought of you meeting me at the airport on August 29 is the only thing right now that makes this trip seem doable. Thanks again.

So what else is happening besides the realization of inevitable change? Work is pretty good, even though yesterday was far too hot a day to spend working outside. My boss is due any day now so by next week I expect her to be on maternity leave. Although, the fact that she's still working as hard as ever while she's ready to pop would indicate she'll be back on the job sooner than any new mother probably ought to be. Oh, and yesterday we had an unusual blessing. While Emily and I were driving the gator back from a piece of work we had to do outside the park, we found little pieces of paper strewn across the road halfway up the hill. Picking them up, we discovered them to be coupons to Taco John's. There were 114 of them. (Yes, I counted them.) So now I can get one dollar off a purchase of at least five dollars as many times as I want for the rest of the summer. Sweet deal.

During this, my last summer in Sioux Falls, I've decided to try to get to all the places that I've never been. The length of the list is rather shocking. Although, in the past few weeks, I've accomplished quite a few of them, all of them being eating establishments, of course. I finally got to Red Rosa, the shiny diner downtown, Buffalo Wild Wings, Nick's Gyros and HuHot. I know, it's a travesty that I've been in town for four years without making it to those places, but there are certain things that don't fit well in a college student's budget, such as eating out at a place that doesn't have a 99 cent value menu.

And Monday was Sherwin's birthday. It was a great day, because I got to spend most of it with him. It's great that he has a job now, but the hours don't match up with mine very well. Well, that and the fact that he is helping to destroy America and modern civilization as we know it by working at Wal-Mart, but I let that part slide. ;) Anyway, we took advantage of the fact that we both had the day off and saw a matinee of WALL-E before heading out to Lennox to grill out with his family and friends. WALL-E was great. Hooray for robots in love! And now I have songs from Hello Dolly running through my head. A spoiler is probably necessary to explain that statement. While WALL-E is alone on Earth, compacting trash and developing a personality, he watches the musical Hello Dolly every night, and a few of the songs are played throughout the movie. I felt like such a nerd for being able to identify the opening music. But, a nerd I am and ever more shall be. You can hardly be anything else and work in a library.

Well, I'm off to another day of weeding and sweating. I'll try to not wait so long before the next post.

-Kim