Back to school no more

Here is a day that I always knew was coming and even after my graduation this last May just did not seem real. It wasn't until I walked through Target seeing all the kids with their parents buying pencils, pens and notebooks and college students buying toasters and hot plates that it all sank in. There will never againbe a "back to school" time for me.

Sure I may have kids some day and will have to trek out for all the back to school sales. Heck, I may even go to grad school at some point and yet even that won't be the same. Granted, I was never big on buying new notebooks and pens but it still feels as if almost the final nail in the childhood coffin has been nailed for me. The final nails, of course, be when I get married and have kids.

Perhaps it's because I spent so long at college getting myself straightened out that when I finally found what I want to do and made some friends it was all over. I did not waste my college years by any means. I would never trade them for anything and the friends that I have made I hope will continue on forever even though I know that most of them have moved far away, never to return to the little spot in the valley.

I think this is all because I am not getting the job here at the college but instead have moved on to a much bigger job. This of course means that I will not see certain people on a daily basis like I used to although I may stop down at the college for a visit now and then.