Thursday, May 1, 2008

Circle of Life

Today as I walked back to my car after TAKING MY LAST FINAL EVER, I finally remembered that the crosswalk button pointing south is broken so I pressed the one that points west and was able to cross without delay (it's one of those crosswalks where everybody crosses at once). That's one piece of knowledge I will never need again.

To celebrate I got my hair cut and colored, splurged on produce at Whole Foods, and bought some salad dressing containers and ramekins (because I want to make the Babbo Maple Crema recipe) at Bed Bath & Beyond. And then I realized that I am completely boring. After that, I gathered together my old textbooks to sell, replaced the battery in the smoke alarm, straightened the kitchen, and twiddled my thumbs.

The first week of law school, Zach took a picture of me with four cans of Diet Coke, a stack of books, my shiny new laptop, and some flowers he bought to celebrate new beginnings. Today I drank 64 oz of diet coke, sold the last of the books in the pictured stack of books, and threw away some dried flowers that Zach bought me as a consolation when I didn't get the clerkship I wanted. My laptop is worn on the corners, the "A" and "N" keys are almost completely worn off and the spacebar sticks.

2 comments:

Kristin said...

What a great post! I'm sure this entire week has been full of things that feel very final. The quote that comes to mind is, "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Here's to new beginnings!!

Sarah W said...

I finally figured out how to post comments here, since I use a different blog software. Oh well! Congrats on graduation-- hope you are having a blast in Bali!