i hung out with cat yesterday for the first time all summer and it was great to be around another simmons woman. we sat around and talked about simmons and the professors and the communications department...i even gave her some advice about the senior classes shes taking, since i took the exact same ones last year. i think that really helped me realize that even though i'm not "on campus" i will still be involved in some shape or form, since i still have a ton of friends there and of course, i will be volunteering for the admissions office as an alum to recruit future students! (i almost don't have a choice on that one, since my ex-boss was in charge of getting alums to staff fairs and recruit students, and she even tried to convince me to do it as an undergrad and said we'd just lie to anyone who asked and said i had already graduated haha oh kathy, i miss working for you!)
but, on the other hand, i start my real, first 'real world' job tomorrow bright and early at 9 a.m. at brandeis university in the international business school. i'm torn between super-excited and super-nervous. i'm excited that after a great summer of sun, beach, vacations, and lots and lots of drinking and digression (that's for josh and schubie) that i will finally be moving onto that next stage of my life. a bunch of my friends who also graduated have already started their jobs and i can't wait to join them! but, i'm also kind of scared since i won't know anyone there and surprisingly, i am actually pretty shy and quiet around people i don't know. i'm sure after a few days i'll be much more comfortable, since that's how it was when i started in financial aid and admissions, but this time, it's a whole new school, which is why i think i'm a little more nervous than normal. the bonus is that i will actually go to the gym a lot more, since i get an hour lunch, and the gym is right on campus! i am determined to be back in shape like i was senior year when i was swimming, minus the intense shoulder pain.
in other news, i'm sad that i will not be going to see jimmy buffett in concert this summer. for the past 2 summers it had become an annual family outing, and i had hoped to go again this year, but we couldn't get tickets, or so we thought! due to lack of anything else to do, and because of my itunes playing jimmy, i decided to look up on ticketmaster to see if there really wasn't anything left, and guess what! there are tickets for thursday's show, but they're $130 EACH, and it's a thursday night. i would never be able to get up for work the next morning, unless i drove directly there and just slept in the office. last year, we didn't get home until almost 230 a.m. and the previous year it was another really late-night drive home. i'm thinking that i might splurge and get tickets if/when he goes to mohegan sun, since it's not THAT long of a drive and my neighbor has connections and could get me sweeeeeeeeet seats.
i was reading our caribbean travel and life magazine today and i really started to get sad that i don't have any trips planned to the caribbean yet. this is the first time in YEARS (probably close to 13 years at least) that i haven't already known where/when my next trip down there will be. we started going when i was in elementary school, and it just makes me sad to think that because of the economy, it's going to be too expensive to go anymore. i have had a 'cruise' saved for over a year, since i was able to 'book' a room and hold a spot for myself for any date that i wanted when we went on our last cruise, which was junior year, but because of sky-rocketing flights and a lack of money on my end, i haven't been able to actually pick a date and go for it. i think my passion for traveling, the beach, good food and drinks, plus a slight obsession with the music from the islands is the reason that i love going down there.
i think jimmy perfectly summerizes how i feel in 'one particular harbor' - here are a few of the parts that really hit home for me:
I know I don't get there often enough
But God knows I surely try
It's a magic kind of medicine
That no doctor could prescribe....
But there's this one particular harbor
So far but yet so near
Where I see the days as they fade away
Finally disappear
But now I think about the good times
Down in the Caribbean sunshine
In my younger days I was so bad
Laughin' about all the fun we've had
I seen enough to feel the world spin
Mixin' different oceans meetin' cousins
Listen to the drummers and the night sounds
Listen to the singers make the world go 'round
and that is definitely why this is one of my all-time favorite songs, in the whole world.
i'll end with my favorite picture of this summer. i think it really shows how much fun i had with a great group of people!
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