As of 8:30 am EST, August 11th, 2009, I am a fully licensed driver.
It’s very odd. One truth about my entire exsistence for so many years is that I didn’t have a license. I could drive, sure, but not alone. It was an oddity. Not one that I was always proud of, necessarily, but it made me different. But today, that fundamental truth of my existence was shattered at the very moment I was able to drive a car by myself. In fact, the owner of the car I drove for my test loaned me his car all day yesterday to move stuff from Summer Apartment to Campus Apartment asked me to pick him up from the laundromat in my goings on about town. IT WAS SO. WEIRD. DRIVING IN A CAR. ALL BY MYSELF!
And I got to do it AGAIN TODAY because I got a call from ResLife this morning telling me I needed to move again. This isn’t a problem because the apartment we are getting is only a few years old and much nicer (and has air conditioning. dear sweet air conditioning.) Also, the entirety of my old (“Briton”) apartment can fit in the living room of the new (“Mae”) apartment. And the new apartment is amazing, guys. TONS of storage space and closets everywhere. A beautiful kitchen with very nearly new appliances. Nice furniture and carpeting. A huge bathroom. A good location on campus – not in the center of things but not too far away from them.
That said, I am optimistic about this upcoming year. Perhaps it was just the rush of seeing a lot of people that you haven’t seen in a long time and missed dearly, but I have a good feeling about this.
