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leaving chicago :(
Aug. 9th, 2007 09:50 amtoday's it...my last day in chicago.
this summer has gone by way too fast. i'm excited to see my friends in st. louis, and i'm excited to just get law school over with, but i'm really sad about leaving chicago. chicago is home. i don't feel like i belong nearly as well in any other city. and, it was nice to be here this summer and remember how it felt to be here for a long time...to live my life here, instead of pop in for a weekend here and there.
the summer was fantastic. i goofed around a lot, explored some parts of the city i had never seen, and took some public transit routes i had never taken. i spent a lot of time with my friends...friends who live in town, and friends from chicago who don't live here anymore, but came through on different weekends. i enjoyed my job more than i thought i would...i met a lot of fun people at work, and learned about several corners of the law that i had no idea about before the summer started. i'm looking forward to being back there when i'm back in chicago, after i finish taking the bar.
(and, with that, i hope this is the last time i mention the bar until next summer, when it's breathing down my neck, and i'm going crazy trying not to study for it.)
and now...i have to pack up all of my stuff, and pray it fits in my suitcase and my bookbag for the ride home. i still don't know what i'm going to do with the granny cart i acquired this summer...i really hope i can get it on the bus with me, somehow lug all my stuff to union station, because i need that thing in st. louis with me. i've tried and tried to find a granny cart in st. louis so i could do grocery shopping more easily, and i've never been able to find one. the wholel reason i bought one here was because they actually sell them in chicago. but,o f course...i wasn't thinking when i bought it what a pain in the butt it was going to be to get it to st. louis with me. oh well...hopefully i'll get it there.
on a completely unrelated note, i'm excited to get back to my own apartment back in st. louis. it was so weird and unsettling living with three strangers this summer. right now, it's down to one stranger...but it's the one i really, really don't like. it's the one who is twice my age, expected me to do things like fix her computer, and tried to charge the other roommates for phone and cable service she didn't use. i'm in my room now, and there's a window between my bedroom and the kitchen. it has to stay cracked open, because the internet router and modem run out of my bedroom--that's where the cable hookup is. that roommate is in the kitchen--and she is SMOKING. so, i can smell cigarette smoke. it's driving me nuts, like it's been driving me nuts all summer. i can't wait to be back in my own apartment so i can sleep on a bed and not an air mattress (like i've been doing all summer long), and not have roommates who annoy the crap out of me by prying into my personal life, entering my room without telling me, and smoking in the apartment.
now i'm just typing more stuff for the sake of procrastinating from packing. for crying out loud, i've REGISTERED FOR THE NOVEMBER MPRE as a way of procrastinating from packing. that's just pathetic. i need to just get it over with...but i don't wanna. :(
this summer has gone by way too fast. i'm excited to see my friends in st. louis, and i'm excited to just get law school over with, but i'm really sad about leaving chicago. chicago is home. i don't feel like i belong nearly as well in any other city. and, it was nice to be here this summer and remember how it felt to be here for a long time...to live my life here, instead of pop in for a weekend here and there.
the summer was fantastic. i goofed around a lot, explored some parts of the city i had never seen, and took some public transit routes i had never taken. i spent a lot of time with my friends...friends who live in town, and friends from chicago who don't live here anymore, but came through on different weekends. i enjoyed my job more than i thought i would...i met a lot of fun people at work, and learned about several corners of the law that i had no idea about before the summer started. i'm looking forward to being back there when i'm back in chicago, after i finish taking the bar.
(and, with that, i hope this is the last time i mention the bar until next summer, when it's breathing down my neck, and i'm going crazy trying not to study for it.)
and now...i have to pack up all of my stuff, and pray it fits in my suitcase and my bookbag for the ride home. i still don't know what i'm going to do with the granny cart i acquired this summer...i really hope i can get it on the bus with me, somehow lug all my stuff to union station, because i need that thing in st. louis with me. i've tried and tried to find a granny cart in st. louis so i could do grocery shopping more easily, and i've never been able to find one. the wholel reason i bought one here was because they actually sell them in chicago. but,o f course...i wasn't thinking when i bought it what a pain in the butt it was going to be to get it to st. louis with me. oh well...hopefully i'll get it there.
on a completely unrelated note, i'm excited to get back to my own apartment back in st. louis. it was so weird and unsettling living with three strangers this summer. right now, it's down to one stranger...but it's the one i really, really don't like. it's the one who is twice my age, expected me to do things like fix her computer, and tried to charge the other roommates for phone and cable service she didn't use. i'm in my room now, and there's a window between my bedroom and the kitchen. it has to stay cracked open, because the internet router and modem run out of my bedroom--that's where the cable hookup is. that roommate is in the kitchen--and she is SMOKING. so, i can smell cigarette smoke. it's driving me nuts, like it's been driving me nuts all summer. i can't wait to be back in my own apartment so i can sleep on a bed and not an air mattress (like i've been doing all summer long), and not have roommates who annoy the crap out of me by prying into my personal life, entering my room without telling me, and smoking in the apartment.
now i'm just typing more stuff for the sake of procrastinating from packing. for crying out loud, i've REGISTERED FOR THE NOVEMBER MPRE as a way of procrastinating from packing. that's just pathetic. i need to just get it over with...but i don't wanna. :(
