My New Life

So much has changed in the week since I last updated. Luckily most of the changes have been quite positive and all is currently going well!

I graduated from RPI on Saturday morning. I remember everything feeling quite surreal, kinda like I was dreaming at the time. When I took my degree from President Jackson and shook her hand, I felt what could best be described as an out-of-body experience. Of course, it could’ve been the heat, and the fact we had been standing out in it with our black robes for more than 2.5 hours at that point.

There was no time to spare, and directly following graduation and a quick lunch with my folks at Brown’s (formerly Troy Pub) we picked up the moving truck and started loading the belongings of my small 15th Street apartment. It took a little while, thanks to a large couch, desk, and a few downpour thunderstorms, but we finally got the truck loaded. My mom and sister headed back to Ohio (my sister had classes that Monday) and my dad, Minnie and I set out for Washington DC. I was a little distressed at first about leaving so quickly and not being able to hang out with friends one last time… but I realized that in the few days before graduation I got to spend time with the friends who really count and that was awesome

The first stop was Time Warner’s office in Albany to return the cable box and modem. Of course by the time we got there they were closed. I still have the stuff, not sure how I will get it back to them at this point. Driving went pretty smoothly, and we ended up spending the night somewhere in central New Jersey. We set out early Sunday morning and made it here by 2 PM. Dad paid a couple of guys here to help us unload the truck, and after two hours the truck was empty and my new apartment filled with boxes.

Let me say the apartment is really nice. I was expecting carpet but found wood floors instead, which is fine with me because I think that adds a bit of character to the place. I was happy that my apartment looked just as nice as the model I was shown a few weeks ago when I visited. The appliances are all less than one year old, the walls freshly painted, and there is plenty of space to do whatever I want. For those of you who saw it, my apartment in Troy is only slightly bigger than my new living room! I’ll get photos posted soon I promise! We went out Monday morning to furniture shop (and ended up buying a nice bedroom set, new matress, and dining room set!). So for now there is a lot of unpacking, putting away, and organizing to be done before this place will feel like home.

I took dad out to Dulles airport yesterday for his flight back to Dayton, I’m hoping that they will come visit me a bit more often than they did in Troy. I think it would be cool for them to come down for July 4th… we could take the metro (there’s a station 1 mile from my apartment) into DC and watch the fireworks over the Capitol. If anyone else wants to visit for any reason at any time, stop on by! I have a spare bed

All righty, back to unpacking and such.