quoted:

"You want some of this kid? You want it?"
-me. I'm a hit with the kids

feel this:

"...when everything inside me feels like everything I hate, you are the hope I have for change, you are the only chance I'll take..." Switchfoot

I am in Denton, TX now and ready to start a new life, or whatever. Or maybe not. It hasn't really sunk in yet that this is the town where I'm going to be living for at least the next two years...maybe more...who knows. In the three or so days it took to drive down here I kept thinking to myself "there's something I'll have to get a picture of on my way home!" or "I'll have to tell Tom about that when i get home!" as if I was just on a roadtrip. Even being here in my house and meeting one of my roommates (the other one is in Oregon schmoozing the Native American Tribe he belongs to apparently...) and driving aimlessly around Denton and trying to find my way back to my house hasn't gotten it through my head yet. I guess it will hit me soon enough. School will start, I'll find a crappy job, I'll hopefully find some nerdy people to hang out with, and my life will become just another rut. Hopefully it will be an enjoyable rut, though, at least lots of it, and that I'll grow from the good and bad experiences and that there will always be people and events that come out of nowhere and take me out of the ordinary. I think I'll like it here all right. The town itself seems nice...greener than I thought it would be, but muggier than I thought it would be too. And hotter than hell, which has resulted in some really intense heat lightning the last couple of nights, which was really cool.

Other than my safe arrival and attempts to acclimate myself to Denton life, there's really not a lot to report. I bought a bunch of cheap furniture today cause i wasn't able to bring any with me in my tiny car. It's all still sitting in boxes strewn about my room. Putting everything together will be my project for tomorrow...along with grocery shopping. Gosh, have i mentioned how excited I am to be living on my own again?! I haven't grocery shopped for myself or had my own personal space in about two years, and it's about damn time I grow up and move out of the parents' basement.

Those entrance exams are, unfortunately, still looming. They're Monday morning. I'll try not to think about that right now.

yesterday // life goes on