Nostalgia, so what?
Just because I miss all you guys and because I have nothing better to do, I'm posting my favorite pictures from back in the day!
Yes Payton is sober. No, he really is.
Ah...the best of times.
She can fly! She can fly! She can fly!
Erik passing a bottle in front of our Kodak moment
Oh how I miss that Jeepy
Oh Anne...I might miss you the mostest.
Sorry...I had to include this one Morgan.
I think everyone looks bad in this picture. :(
Ahhhh.
I love this picture! Everyone looks so nautral and genuinely happy...like no one had to say "smile!"
Only Michelle....
This was a fun day skipping SRT!
Happy Birthday Morgan!!!!!
So happy together...
....victory's ours today...HEY! (side note: Craig is starting for Columbia--over a senior!! woot for craig)
So this has been my tribute to LC I guess. It seemed like we had a lot more genuine fun back then. Don't get me wrong, I have fun at Purdue, but it's a different kind of fun. Maybe a more mature kind of fun, I'm not sure. And to be honest, I'm not sure which I like better. Sometimes I wish we could just go to Perkins randomly, but the closest one is the one we always go to. I looked on their website. :( I seriously miss people knowing ME. I think Matt is the only person here who really knows me. I think I just took for granted that we all had about 5 years of being with each other...you really get to know people in 5 years. I'm trying to be patient, but it's hard. I don't feel like anything is new anymore. Like I'm not hanging out with people for the first time. I'm not meeting new people anymore. Matt's friend and my rush baby's friend (I know, i'm such a match-maker) were SO adorable at their Barn Dance. It was obvious they were a little uneasy and nervous, but it was cute. They were holding hands and just had this look about them...I can't describe it. Yeah it's great to be in a serious, stable relationship, but it doesn't have the excitement of every little thing being new. I think maybe I miss spontaneity. Everything here is basically planned. Class, studying, party with this house Thursday, party with that house Friday. Something small with Matt on Saturday. Mix up those three days and that's basically my weekends. Sometimes I just want to go to Michelle's house and watch Law and Order and snuggle with Jonathan and then sleep and then wake up and go to Perkins. Sometimes I want to break into Diamond Pointe or do cartwheels across 86th Street or take a night drive back from Emily's or Victoria's (taking the long way) down Fall Creek with the windows down and the music (Ataris, of course) up. When did we all grow up? Right now I feel like this is all temporary and vacation will end and we'll all come back and be the same. Aimee, John and I could still exist in the same room. Stacey and Michelle will still live out in Geist, and Payton won't be a frat boy and me, Michelle, Victoria and Stacey won't be sorority girls. Jonathan can still be gay though. :) I miss you guys a lot, and sitting here writing about it isn't making me feel much better about it. I'm sitting in an empty computer lab in an empty sorority house, feeling pretty much the same. I wish I could go for a walk but that's not safe so I wish I could go for a drive but I don't have a car and even if I did I don't want to drive around campus. I want to drive down Fall Creek and drive by my old house and look at how all the flowers have died and the hammock is gone and see how the new neighbors don't ever mow their grass. I want to go back to Mr. Lunsford's classroom and sit under the tables and sing Reba songs. I want to go back to riding the bus with Aimee and laughing histerically at our less-than-educated bus driver ("Shut up I can't see" and singing weird songs like that "I just want to fly" and "Don't laugh at me" song. I want to go back to LC and talk to Sra. Rich and look at pictures of her granddaughter. I want to go back to Dammeier's room (shut up) and sit in our SRT seats and look at dead stuff in jars and make fun of him for putting up his IU flag every time IU has some accomplishment. I want to sit in the cafeteria and eat Bosco sticks and watch Hunter get into fights with ghetto underclassmen for throwing milkshakes and such. I want to be in Foley's room and do NOTHING but I would try to be better friends with Megan McKee because she is just AWESOME.
Just when I think I'm so happy here (which I really am, don't let this post mislead you) I get to looking at old pictures and thinking about the past and being confused. I realize that we have to grow up and move on, but why? Just because? Right now that seems like a really bad answer, but I can't think of anything else.