posted 2007/03/16 at 15:21
(Just to give you an idea of the weather around here lately, Wednesday afternoon we topped 70 degrees and had a severe thunderstorm warning for a good long while. The following morning when I woke up there was new snow on the ground. This is getting pretty insane.)
It was a year ago today that I loaded up a rented Kia and took off to Raleigh for a dance game tournament Lara was running, and a chance to meet all the cool Carolina dance game players I'd read so much about. Funnily enough, the only other major trip I've taken since then was for a tournament Lara ran in Cleveland last month. I'm hoping that soon I'll be making other long trips for job interviews at some of the places I've applied for jobs at.
I'm not really all that big on cars -- especially compared to my father, who is one of the biggest classic car nuts you'd ever hope to meet -- but there is something I enjoy about long drives. Although I do have music to listen to in my Camry, whenever I'm out on the road I just like to keep things as silent as possible. I guess there's something kind of zen-like about being out there on the highway for a long while, something that helps me take my mind off of the dozens of things I usually have swirling around it at any one moment.
I figure that if I get a job that's within daytrip distance from the house, I'll probably be coming back here every Saturday or so. In addition to wanting to stay close to my family, I figure things will be a lot easier for me if I just bring the basic necessities with me when I get my own place, and then I can start bringing other things from here to my place as I need them. The folks don't seem to be in a rush to rent out my room here (even though I've encouraged them to let Jeff rent it after I move out), so I guess there really isn't too much of a rush. Besides, driving here and back will just give me another good excuse to go out driving.
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