Graduation, New Job, Atlanta Traffic, and a Good Run

In the last 5 days I've graduated from college, moved out of my Charleston home, visited with my family in Aiken, pack up the childhood room and organize the last 6 years of my clothes, binders, books and notes and move to Atlanta!

On the way out the door to Atlanta my mom informed me of some great news --- my parents were letting me use one of their vehicles for the summer (Thanks Mom and Dad!) which is a huge sacrifice for them because they're down to 2 cars for 3 drivers. So I packed up all my stuff for Atlanta, and drove myself!

The job's been great so far --- exactly in line with my school choice interests. I got to sit in on a 2 hour school choice coalition meeting this afternoon. I'm also working a lot with research.

Atlanta traffic is another story! My drive from home to work is 17 miles. It took me an hour today to get home (partly because of a couple wrong turns). It takes a long time to compensate for wrong turns in a place like this --- particularly when you don't know the area very well. Joey has been very patient in letting me call him if I need to re-route based on a turn I may have made. However, I'm pretty proud of myself thus far... I am learning!

By the time I got back tonight I started tearing up a bit because of all the driving frustrations I think. But I went for a good long run in the trails on the Emory campus... a complete detox. Gosh, it felt great. Now Joey is cooking dinner for night #2 -- he's so sweet. It smells good!

Finally, thanks to everyone who made graduation a very special time for me! Thank you profusely to all the family who came in to visit (one even took finals early to come), those who called and all the friends that I got to celebrate with! It really makes you realize how what the important things are in life.