Sun, Apr. 27
... In more than just one moment
Random thoughts and things going on today. I don't have the mental capacity to link them all into coherent paragraphs.
Janel and I have had a steady stream of guys coming to our house in the middle of the night, on the snowiest day of the year, bringing in random pieces of furniture and boxes of stuff. Dave, Phil, Simon, and Brett are all storing stuff in our basement over the summer, so we had those four, plus Mitch, Logan, and Jason, coming in and out of our house. We're wondering what the neighbors were thinking. Especially when Simon came in yelling, "I'm going to be a cowboy stripper!" Yeah.Jen's flying in first thing Monday morning, thanks to this crazy weather. She's staying with a friend of hers from school who lives in Hamilton... and his family just happens to have been friends with my family for years. Small world.Janel and I are far too giggly to be watching We Were Soldiers. But we're watching it anyways. With a break in the middle for SNL.It's still snowing, and who knows how much more we'll get before morning.Janel and I have been thinking oddly the same this weekend. It's really bizarre. We've had the same thoughts on everything from purple band-aids for Phil, to Mel Gibson's blue eyes, to being attractive by watching war movies, to dirty innuendos. It's kinda weird... but we've had the same thoughts, but we never say them at the same time. So it sounds like one of us (usually me) is copying the other's ideas.I need to rent Land Before Time.Phil showed up at my house last night at midnight, just after Janel had left with a bunch of other people to go dancing, because he was locked out of his house, and we watched Great Expectations.The roads should be clear enough this week for Jen and I to still head to Edmonton and Banff. They'd better be, anyways.Janel and I sat on the couch and watched the guys move stuff in for most of the evening. We offered to help, but we weren't too whole-hearted with our offers, so they didn't take us up on them. We offered to help them clean their house, too, because it needs to be done tonight, but they said they had that under control and didn't need our help.It's so strange to realize that it's been two years since I moved out of dorms. This is that weekend for this year--everyone's packing up, cleaning up, and moving out, and it's been so long since I have.
I'm glad I'm not moving right now, though. For one thing, the weather is horrendous today, and I didn't envy the guys moving all their stuff into our basement at all. For another thing, I don't like packing, and it's only been four months since I moved. Besides, moving out of dorms was such a weird experience. There were so many people I knew I wouldn't see again, or have the same sort of relationship with that I'd had before. It was a weird weekend.
Grad, Laura's surprise party, moving, The Waiting Room, Jade, saying goodbye... it was a crazy few days.
It's so strange to think how long ago that was, and how much those eight months affected me. And at the same time, it's interesting to see how my close relationships have changed since then. Shan, Lynsae, Jen, Jade, Corinne, Becca, Dave, Trevor... all of them were such an influential part of the time I spent living in dorms.
Yeah... time flies. When you're having fun, and when you're not. And you look back all too quickly and realize that it's been two years and life has changed so much for everyone since then. We're all at such different points, but we had something in common that year, and something that drew us together closer than most others.
And with that, I'm going back to the last 10 minutes of We Were Soldiers.
infinite || abyss
posted at 1:13 a.m.
