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Keep on keeping on

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Over the past two weeks I’ve mainly been concentrating on staying busy. If I’m busy I don’t have time to think about the facts that I don’t have a job, I no longer have a boyfriend, and that I’m probably eligible for welfare if I took the time to check into the matter. 

Every day I’ve been going to work with my mom to help out with some of her kids. Each morning I get to the school and the kids in her reading group trip over themselves to be the ones who get to read to me. It’s been really fun helping out with them–a couple of the kids are just too cute. They’re all in 3rd grade and they’re reading some books that I hadn’t seen since I was their age, so that’s been a lot of fun. The little boys in the group have been hilarious…one asked my mom about the possibility of dating me and two others fought with each other to see who would be able to hold my hand! I had to draw the line though when one of them asked if he could sit in my lap the other day.

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Back where it began

Monday, April 17th, 2006

It’s funny. In the past year I’ve graduated, spent a couple of months traveling all over Europe, moved to London to work for six months, but now that I’m back in Florida it feels like I’m back to the same place I was before with absolutely nothing to show for it. It feels like it’s all happened in the blink of an eye, but at the same time two days ago seems like a lifetime in the past, and tomorrow feels like it will never come. Life’s about to change again and I wish I could just hit fast forward for a while! 

In case there’s any doubt, I did expire. The interview was a bust, which meant I had to come home (but thankfully let me off the hook for the third one). I had six days to get everything in order to leave and say my goodbyes to London. I finally had one of the waffles in Ealing Broadway I’d been salivating over for months…and good thing I did, too! It was one of the best things I’d ever had! The weather was gorgeous the last few days I was there; the sun was out five days’ running and didn’t cloud over until the morning Kevin went with me to the airport. That was a hard day. One of many. 

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