Why?

I feel like a lot of people have wondered why I'm going to Olympia WA of all the places in the world. I know it's random, but you know what...I am random. Basically I've wanted to move out west since I took the year off from college after sophomore year.

Jeanette and I had planned to move somewhere cool and after taking a quiz on www.findyourspot.com we found out her best match was Denver CO and mine was Seattle WA followed by Denver. So Denver it was! It had been in the back of my mind for awhile that even though I went back to school, when I was done we would move out there. What changed now is that Jeanette can't move out this soon, I can't be hating my life here any longer, and I know 5 people in Seattle/Olympia and no one in Denver. I chose Olympia over Seattle because not only is it way cheaper, but my cousin Jay and good friend from boarding school, Molly, live there.

Now I'll get a little into "hating my life here." I absolutely LOVE my friends in Potsdam...Arethusa, Sigma Chi, etc etc...but everyone is growing up and graduating and I can't just stay there and let my life pass me by. It's been hard because last spring I had it in my mind that I would be in Potsdam for another 3 semesters for my masters program. Every event that took place, it wasn't the last one. I still had Spring '09 and Falls '08 and '09.

That is my hardest part of dealing with leaving, that I never accepted those as being my lasts (I'll put the list afterwards of everything I'm not ready to miss). Then thinking about those as being my last times makes me think about my car accident and get upset about that. I could have not made it past August 1, 2007 and there would be a thousand amazing things that would have never happened. Then I start to think about my road trip out to Washington and get afraid that I'll never even make it out there. But I can't not live my life because I'm afraid, and I'm glad that I'm finally putting my goal of going to all 50 states into action. After I get out to Washington, I will have been to 37 of 50!

OK, so here is everything from just the spring that I don't want to miss: Sigma Chi's In Night, Arethusa's In Night, long winter weekend, spring break, Alumnae Weekend, Pig Roast, Sweetheart Formal, Arethusa's Formal... At least I'm going to make it to both bid nights, but there is so much that I want to go to. I do have a free flight I need to book before March 20-something so maybe I'll make it back for one other thing.

Next post: road trip schedule...WOOOOO!

Plans

I wanted to get something set up so I could track my road trip out to Olympia and keep everyone filled in about what I'm up to. For the next month or so it's going to be lame planning stuff (if I write anything at all) but hopefully I'll have some good stories not only from the drive out there, but once I arrive and get situated.
Less than 45 days left in NY!!!