It’s week 3 down here for us now. I feel a little more comfortable, but not much. It is taking me longer than I expected to adjust. Maybe it’s the lack of internet at home, or the lack of a paycheck, or just that I’m so much farther away from my home and my friends than I’ve ever moved before. It helps that I have a lot of schoolwork to do, to take my mind off this weird displaced feeling. Even though I have The Little Red-Haired Girl with me, fun new friends, and I’m playing rugby again and I clearly have a place here at school, I just don’t feel comfortable. Sometimes it’s nice to be in my little cubicle here at school, where I have little peripheral view and everything in front of me is timeless and geography-less. It’s like being nowhere at all feels more like home than being in our house. I guess it must be awfully hard for The Little Red-Haired Girl too, who is just waiting to start work and can’t escape to a cubicle like I do. Although I don’t think she feels the need to as strongly as I do. Hopefully this feeling will pass. Meanwhile, I am trying to stay positive and look for things that will make me feel more settled.
Last night we went to an Indigo Girls concert by the river. (hi ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
jae1202!) What a great show. That was something that made me feel more like me; they played a whole bunch of old stuff, and we sang along the whole time. I’ll just have to keep looking for things like that to keep me going. We did a little audio recording when we got home, although The Little Red-Haired Girl had had 2 beers earlier and so was hungover by then, and I was kind of tired. So it may be a lot of silences. But it’s short.
jandb20050908.mp3
