Moving Home

My landlady in Charlottesville was generous enough to allow us two extra weeks past our lease conclusion so we could stay for my housemate Sarah's wedding. Once the wedding was over, I headed out the next morning, packing quickly and returning home permanently for the first time in four years.

Thankfully, sentiment didn't strike overwhelmingly on this landmark occasion and I was able to leave Charlottesville with a sense of peace and joy. We're not entirely sure how long it will take for the truth to strike me or whether it's the case that the slow transition out of Cville this past semester was sufficient closure.

My next project, which I have already begun, is organizing all of my belongings and treating my room here as my primary and only residence as opposed to secondary. What on earth am I going to do with my second toothbrush, double set of pillows, on and on...?

Weekend Wedding

My good friend and college housemate of two years got married this weekend and it was a beautiful, lovely wedding in Charlottesville. Cville has become a second hometown for all of us housemates, the others of whom I went with to the wedding, so I think it was the perfect location for the perfect wedding. I obsessively checked the weather the entire week prior to the wedding -- apparently everyone else was doing this too. Predictions had been fluctuating between rainstorm and drizzle, but the actual day turned out to be clear skies with a cool breeze. No waterworks to be seen but for our happy tears sitting in the pews of the University Chapel.

Some highlights included circle dancing in traditional Scottish wedding style and Sarah's pretty and tastefully sparkly veil. As Alumni reunion weekend was happening at UVA, my housemates and I had a fun time reuniting for the last time before splitting off for the summer and our respective full time jobs or job searching.

It's surreal to witness friends getting married. Let wedding season begin, both for the year and for this period of my life.