NC

So i have spent the last several days in NC with leslie and her family and a good chunk of her dads side of the family, and i have to say that it was nice to get away from north virginia for a while becuase while it is good to be home home per se can be very hetic and not relaxing, although i guess one could say that i traded one world of chaous for another because leslie's family is a lot lot mine not too big but very lout and crazy. there was fifteen of us in total and most of the time the guys were out golfing and the girls were out shooping around, since neither les or i enjoy eother one of thes things we got to stay at the condo and watch the youngest play video games for the entire day while he downed coke after coke and yelled as loud as he could at the big screan tv. what can i say he is only 11 years old but still, so is liam and he dosent act that way. it was nice to have the down time though becuase the second that i get back i am goign to have to start getting ready to go back to school and i have to admit i am not really looking forward to the whole school thing, the hard part about being away for a semeser doing what you really want to be doing is that when it time to go back to college sometime you find it hard to find the logic in that choice. but the good thing is right now i am not worrying about that just spending time with les and relaxing, well the most you can with the ammount of noise in the back ground.
int eh morning we are goign to head back to leslie's parents house and as of the now the plan is that i am goign to stick around for the rest of the day and enjoy in some maryment so we will have to see how that goes but form there it is back to nova and on to maine, it seems like it was a blink of an eye ago i was steping on a bus for the end of my nols semester and heading for the airport, i ahve to say thats it is very weird. the other dya i tried to find the woods in my parents neighborhood and lets just say that didnt go so well, that whole part of the world is just one long loud smear of humanity and i cant say that i enjoy it in the least, the closest thign that i could find was the drive going don to the rec center it was lined with the trees that were put there a few years ago. here i was looking for alone and peace and all i found was strip malls and parking lots, but then again i knew that was going to happen so who am i kidding " i can not rest from travle, i will drink life to the lees, all times i have enjoyed greatly, suffered greatly"... to say the least that is ... i feel that it is time to be putting back on a pack back i am going nuts here in the void that is inbetween what was and what is soon to be. my one small hope was that i would get a job for unity leading a week long trip at the start of jan and they didnt give it to me because they had to cancle one of the trips... not enough people there to go on them, i think that at this point i would have done the work for free simple because i want t get back out there, even if there is a cabin with car camping
things simply are not the same
so now i suspect i will head to unity early because i want to get there and start on things, if i can make it up there i would like to go to the monthly meeting at the unity ambulance, the rescue squad that i work for, the way i figure it has been too long sonce i have listened to the radio go off int he middle of the night and i have gotten to do somehting about it. i feel like siting here doing nothign is a shame i want to do somehting, anything, its time to go back to being an emt and a student...time to go back to the life of an emt

x mas time

So i am finally home, or some of the places that my bills go to at least, after finishing my nols semester about ten days ago i thn started the long and hard process of making my way back to what soem people like to call the real world and what i often like to think of as my own personal verson of hell. i flew from riverton wy to devener then to o hare and then finally into portland maine. i had to admit it was very nice to see leslie again after al of that time we had spent apart, she is admitly the only person that i really wanted to se and more so the only part of my transation back to the "real world" that i was looking forward to in the least. but there she was and from there the two of us started the long and hard process of making our way home by way of car. there was a bit of a debate of whose car we would take for our long roadtrips but in the end i won and we left the big beast at school and hopped in my gas sipping sentra 40mpg baby! i spent several as in two days in maine up at unity getting a few thigns in order things like fixing my car so it was able to make the road trip home and helping les fix her car as well. once that wasa taken care of we were able to pack up and leave. since les cant drive a five speed we decided to take two days and get to ohio where we would stay with my my family ther for several days. once we got to good old burton we had several days of relaxed enjoyment before we had to head across the state to get my brother from his school four hours back in the car and then another ten to north va. are you seeing a trend here ? lots of time in the car thats right. so we finally rool into my parents house at somehting like three o clock in the morning and all of us fall stright into bed. we spent the day with my parents and then it was time to get les home so her parents didnt kill me for keeping her longer then was needed. it was indeed nice of them to let me steal her for the week ...... more later ...

out of the woods

so thats it, its over, three months have gone by and i am done with nols it was an amazing experience now i have t go home... more later
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