truth be told i don't hate making the long trip home for the weekend. granted it goes much more quickly with a companion, but i find ways to make the trip go faster. i catch up on phone calls from long distance friends, i sing loudly and freely to pocahontas songs, i usually by a new album off itunes and jam to some new music. sometimes genius ideas are born while i'm on the road (that's when i thought up "hostessing" for COB events-- yes i know that was a lot of alphabet soup for most of you but my tri delta girls will get it!). my new favorite thing to do is get my hands on an audiobook and listen to some new york times best sellers.
on my last trip home i "read" The Shack by William Young. it was excellent.
i've simplified my life this summer, due to a couple things. my college friends have mostly graduated and scattered about the US-- new mexico, texas, florida, south dakota, missouri, new york, ireland. okay, ireland is not in the US. you know what i mean. my roommates both have boyfriends to visit and families in town to bother. therefore i am left all to my lonesome for entertainment very often, something that has NEVER happened to me since i've been living in the sorority house or with my parents.
another thing that contribues to the lonesomeness is the lack of TV. we HAVE a TV, but refuse to pay for a converter box for digital televison (because we want to get cable sometime, and the cable here is already set up with the digital shenanigans.) so therefore we get NO channels. when all the celebs were dying i felt really out of touch. also, iran- yo, what's going on? I NEED MSNBC PLEASE. i am out of touch.
the upside to all of this is that i've become more independant and into nature. i've gone kayaking, i hike (most of the time it's by myself!) i've been to the pool by myself too, and it wasn't so bad. these things you get used to when all your friends have lives and you lack one.
one of the things i've found a lot of joy in is going to the library. not just the school library, either- the tulsa public library. i probably go twice a week. i enjoy perusing the books and DVDs, i've used it a ton for my children's literature class, and most recently i've borrowed some audiobooks to listen to on the way home this weekend! (you were waiting for the connection, right?)
so this weekend i've borrowed a book about climbing the worlds 14 tallest peaks (journey to the top, maybe? i put them in the car already-- trying to be on top of things!) and Oscar Wilde's, Lady Windermere's Fan because i'm a dork and am trying to be all literary savvy. and let me tell you, people, you cannot be literarily savvy without knowing the work of Oscar Wilde.
you just can't.
I'm sorry did I write this blog or did you? I feel like I did, because I feel like you just wrote the story of my life. UGH.
Yeah we are more independent, but I stand firm behind my theory, "all the good stuff isn't good unless you have someone to share it with."
Posted by: Amanda | 2009.07.17 at 08:57 AM