Two days

July 30, 2009 in Reflection
Tags: countdown, family, friends, humidity

Two:

(Two is such a small number)

I will miss… my family and friends. After one last family dinner, my cousin asked, “Are you sad to leave?” Honestly, I hadn’t thought much about that, even though I’ve been writing these things I will miss posts. Any sadness over leaving these things behind has been overshadowed by my excitement to Wyoming and start my new job. I get past difficult situations by looking ahead. I have to remind myself to stop and mourn. I stopped the car by the river on the way home tonight. I cried. In seven months I accomplished much but the most valuable gains from my time are the relationships it has touched, created and shaped. I was fortunate to move to this crazy place with a family and one friend. Now my family includes my friends (old and new) and my family are close friends.

At dinner tonight, the restaurant owner kept getting confused that I wasn’t one of the kids: “Are you coming back for Thanksgiving? Christmas?” “No, no, no, she’s not from here.” Explaining the reason why I moved to New Orleans gradually became easier. The simpler the better, I learned. I think I finally got it right a few nights ago: I wanted to live in New Orleans so I came down here to research my final master’s project. When I finished that, I wasn’t ready to go so I stayed while I looked for a reporting job that fit. And now I’m moving to Wyoming. And yes, I am sad to leave.

I can do without… humidity. Humidity just has to be accepted here. There’s nothing you can do about it. When you leave the air conditioning, you’re going to sweat and you’re going to be gross. My skin didn’t adapt well and I found myself in the acne aisle for the first time since high school. I won’t go into detail, you know how your body reacts to heat and humidity. Imagine it at its worst for a longer than comfortable period of time. Running in the mornings and evenings was cooler but sometimes just as intolerable as the middle of the day because of the humidity. I’m ready for drier air and drier… everything.