I Wish I Could Change Your Mind - Ray LaMontagne

Tonight I completed the PeaceCorp application.  Its been done for about a year but I've never submitted it, that is until tonight.

Tonight I sit on a bed set up in the "office" that was once my bedroom.  Liza and the baby in one bedroom, Morgan in another, Mom and Dad in theirs and I in...mine.

Dad is backing up files on the compute in this office/...bedroom as I was completing the application.

"Dad, so I checked on this application that I don't care where in the world I go.  But they give like eight different regions, so where would you go?"

"When did you get saved again?"

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"...I don't really follow in years...summer after freshmen year I think?"  I can tell you my time and place.  I can tell you what I found was finally holding me back, I know it was 4th of July and at the Indy Youth Weekend.  I do not know which day it was, the day or the hour.  I just know it happened.

He said nothing.  "Why?  You think I'm gonna die over there?"

"I don't know!"  Pause.  He is flossing.  He looks at me and raises his eyebrows.  "What if we get raptured outta here?!  I wanna see ya!"

Nicki Minaj - Fly

Moved back to Purdue tonight.  I'm so happy to be here but saying goodbye is tough no matter what.

Theres an excitement in just being here, in this house.  Shawty has a new boyfriend and he is the one, she was telling me about this as LaRawnda came in on her cell.  She flashed her new engagement ring.  It glitters.

Tonight is the first basketball game of the season.

Excitement.

Theres something about coming back to campus that makes you want to buy running shoes really bad.  Maybe its because everyone is running, and at all times.

Also, I just really really enjoy being around so many boys my age.  It is a very nice feeling.  I really enjoy simply being surrounded by people my own age but there something about being separated from college aged boys that makes you all the happier to live among them again.