Re-entry

"Re-entry" is a term describing the period of adjustment, often accompanied by depression, after one returns from a long vacation, when one tries to get a grip on returning to the "real" word. Re-entry sucks.

I have returned from my month-long european escapade #3, and am faced with....nothing.

I don't have a home, and all my stuff is in boxes stored in my parent's garage and in Tim's room. So now, I sit around all day while Tim is at work and slink from couch to room to bed, listlessly sifting through piles of men's magazines and listening to my stomach growl while watching the food network, thinking, "This is how housecats must feel."

Highlights of the day include: staring at the fishtank, feeding the turtles, cooking instant noodles, and picking the scab off of the behemoth of a cold sore that is currently dominating half of my lower lip.

Occasionally, I go outside to look at the raincouds that literally seem to hang over my head. It's been unbearably gloomy since I returned, as if the world wanted to remind me just how mundane real life can be.

I have been communicating via email with some future classmates of mine re: housing options, and it looks like I'll be meeting some of them soon to decide if I want to share apartments with them for the rest of the year.

On the brighter side, this next month will probably be one of the last times I get to truly relax for a long, long time, so i had better get used to, and start liking, doing nothing all day, because I am sure I'm going to miss this a month from now.