(Not to be confused with the title of the latest DC stuff.)
It occurred to me that I’ve kept this blog for a year now…and actually maintained it. I’m a little thrown off by this, but I think it is largely to do with the fact that I’m in another country and this is certainly a means to keep in touch with everyone. I gotta say, I’m still a little shocked.
It’s Labor Day in the States, and I was trying to remember what I did last year on Labor Day. I’m pretty sure I ended up at the Halfway House. It’s funny the things you remember. I’m feeling nostalgic, I guess.
It’s been a year since the whole Nova stuff began, with the application process and the like; a year since hijinx and tomfoolery was a ritual thing; a year since geocaching and getting the bestest steak dinner OF MY LIFE (thanks Scott!); a year since Serentiy; a year since…well, a lot.
How messed up is that?
Time is a peculiar convention. In some instances, it feels like you have plenty of it; in others, not enough. And then there are those moments when you have no concept of it whatsoever.
Such is this experience at present…
You were here last year - and you were this year in spirit as I looked at your flickr account and went, awwww, I miss Jessi!
That all feels like forever ago to me… Only a year since Serenity? And Geocaching?
It’s weird, but reading this post and the one after it, where you mentioned watching HIMYM at Chris and Marks…I don’t know, it made me sad. Sometimes I forget just how much I missed out on last year, and all the things that will happen this year, only now both you and I are missing them. Which, I don’t know if that makes it better or worse - does misery love company? I don’t know. But I think the sadness that found you last week found its way to Virginia. Hmmm…
Speaking of finding its way to VA, though, Eddie from Ohio is playing here in December.
I thought of you. “You think you’ll find some mountains….”
Feels like forever ago to me also, and I haven’t been missing stuff in the middle or anything. It was over 4% of my life ago though, and that feels like a lot sometimes…