Kentucky

I miss having cats around all the time. Though Maui is shedding on my computer right now. I got a new laptop...

Kentucky is so gorgeous in the summer. I love how green it is, and how hilly. Its funny... I think a lot of the things that people typically think of Kentucky I didn't really do until I got back - like riding around in the back of a pickup truck out to a bonfire in a field. Let me tell you - fireflies are gorgeous, it makes everything... ethereal almost. Fireflies are one of those effects that you see in the movies and think "That doesn't look real", but when you see them in real life its just as dreamlike. Last night was fun, to say the least - bonfires and fireflies and good friends.

I'm always astounded that we managed to amuse ourselves in high school. And I realize how suburban Lexington can be, when we go to Applebees on a Friday night for drinks and appetizers, because the bars are just too far away sometimes, and you have to drive everywhere. Lexington has changed so much in the last 4 years... but not the places I expected. Its nice having some friends back in town - it was weird coming home and them not being here, since they are part of home. And funny having school friends move here for jobs. Its nice being in that place where you know friends parents and they know about your family and these people have known you for 8 years.. its crazy.They know you, and not your resume... not that there's anything wrong with that, but you knew them before they were out to save the world or get a PHD or whatever it is they are doing now. Funny how easy it is to lose touch too, or how hard it is to remember to call this person or that person when you're in town. I'm sorry if I should have gotten in touch and didn't. The one graduation party that is here that I would love to attend to see everyone I don't normally stay in touch with but love still is a week too late.

This summer will be a drastic difference from this last week. Big city life. I'm not sure I'm ready to leave yet - because this will probably be the last summer that everyone is together at the same time, even around to call, and somehow summer is more magical than the winter, there's more freedom, more beauty, more carefree. And people are stepping off to real jobs and world saving jobs and grad school and whatnot - things where you don't get a break for three weeks at winter, or summers off, or set times to be home at the same time, or enough time to come home.

Time to go pack...