I am posting semi-daily because I don't want to work

Mmmm shrimp.

FOOT '07 went to The Place, "An Unusual Restaurant" in Guilford. It's outdoors, BYOB and BYOA (appetizers - in this case, Sunchips and double-stuffed Oreos). They've got a great seafood grille and the best corn cobs I've had in my life. It was a little weird being with FOOT leaders again, since I hadn't attended a FOOT event proper all year. I felt a little out of the circle -- not unwanted, or unloved, or even like I necessarily wanted to be in the circle, but out of it nonetheless. Everyone talked about going to Myrtle over dead week, and I was really glad I wasn't going. I'm not the only one. I snagged a copy of the new TUIB CD as well, which is great -- I now have these familiar voices with me forever.

Sitting there at The Place under the lights, I was struck, not for the first time, by the strange meta-sadness of graduation. I felt a little sad to be parting ways with this scene, but I felt even more sad that I didn't feel sadder. I felt like it was ending on a good note, and I was ready to see new things. Ready for Cambridge. Things are changing for all of us. And yet every time I start anew somewhere, I think things are going to be different, and they never are. That's comforting in a way. Learning who we are, and what we can and can't do.

But I am sad. Happy to have experienced everything here to the extent that I desired, and happy to be moving on. But sad too. A beautiful goodbye. And I could wax poetic on it for ages if I didn't have to write this damn paper. I know it will get done. Everything does. And time keeps on going at the same pace even when it doesn't. And spring always comes. Always.