I’m back!

I promise I am.  These past few weeks have been completely ridiculous and so busy, but things are finally dying down, and I’m willing to write again.

I wanted to take my next entry to talk about game stores, but I thought I would take a breath to update on what I’ve been doing for the past few weeks.

The last few days before graduation were full of packing.  I did fun things every night, but I spent all day getting everything moderately organized into boxes.  Sunday morning was graduation, complete with Katie Couric as our commencement speaker.  Kind of a random decision, but at least she was entertaining.  I spent the rest of the day with my family at our Chemical Engineering reception with most of my friends and professors, finishing the majority of the packing, and then off to a friend’s graduation party.  That was a rough night on me.  My family left to go back to their hotel, leaving in the morning.  My apartment was essentially empty, except for a ton of boxes and random pieces of furniture.  I went to sleep feeling very upset about leaving.  I was excited as hell for my new apartment and job, but terrified of going somewhere I know no one and having big expectations to live up to at work.

Finally graduated!

Monday left no time for being upset.  The movers came at 9:00am, were gone by noon, and I was out by 4:00pm.  The drive to Illinois was not fun, with construction, traffic, and horrible rain, but I hit Chicago as the rain let up and the sun was just setting.  Seeing the city like that made me feel quite a bit better.  At least I know a few people living downtown, and Chicago is an amazing city.  The movers got to my new apartment by 8:00am the next day to move everything in.  I spent the next few days doing some preliminary unpacking, but I was missing some key furniture, so not much could be done.  The following weekend, I went home for a few days to get some last minute appointments in (before my own health insurance kicks in up here) and got to see some friends again.  It was very nice, but leaving everyone was even harder knowing I wouldn’t get to see them again for a very long time.

I got back to Illinois on Tuesday afternoon and proceeded to buy the rest of the furniture I still needed.  That was all delivered on Wednesday morning (all before noon!), which meant a very long day of assembling furniture.  I will take pictures of my accomplishments at some point, but I still have quite a mess of boxes around me.  Other than that, it’s just been unpacking and attempting to relax for a few days before I officially start work in a week.

And I promise I’ll start writing every week again.

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