happy weekend vacation?

somehow today feels like the last day of school/first day of break. my job sort of ended today. i no longer run the park, and i really got that sense of sort of nostalgia and closure leaving the place in the early evening. but next week i'll go help run another one, so it's not the end of my parks era. after that, i get a week or so off before i'll probably go do the same work again for a couple weeks. it makes me wonder why i'd have such a sentimental response to today. maybe it's because of the friends i've made, or the fact that summer is definitely more than half-over, or that it's been more than two months since i wrested my diploma from the hands of kalamazoo college.

the first reconnaissance mission to d.c. is next month. the plane tickets are booked. apartments and federal job listings fill my web browser history. the real world is starting to bear down, and yet there's still a month until we even go physically look for a place to live. so, what to do... maybe things become stressful as watershed moments approach. maybe things become even more laid back as the summer starts to decline. what to do...

recommended music:
sigur ros - popplagio
a silver mt. zion - built then burn (hurrah! hurrah!)