I've finally escaped from the Middle of Nowhere, VA boredom/loneliness deathtrap! Back in Buena Vista now, in the same apartment I was living last time around actually (though I may end up moving in October, assuming I can find a job before then so I don't run out of rent money.) The little blue car is now parked outside (with apartment sticker so I won't get towed, heh), my furniture's set up, my cabinets and fridge are loaded up with enough food to last me a while, and unpacking... well, I'm still kind of in the process of doing that right now, heh.
I've only been here one day, but I can tell that my body's starting to adjust back to a normal sleep schedule already... despite my mom's paranoia that I wouldn't be able to get used to getting up/going to bed earlier. For some reason, she just can't understand that living back home is part of the reason why I go to bed (and get up) so late in the summer, and why I have so much trouble sleeping. It's not a good environment for me--other people stay up super late (making it very hard for me to not stay up late), cats thunder around the house at odd hours of the morning (I love the kitties, but they do make it hard to sleep sometimes... especially when I don't get to bed until an hour before they start), air conditioners sometimes don't get turned on when they need to so the house stays too hot for me to sleep comfortably, privacy does not exist (half the reason I stay up so late is that "downstairs in front of the computer, after everyone else goes to bed" is the closest to "my own private space" as exists there--my actual room doesn't have a door and is right next to the stairs, and the extra bedroom next to it is in a similar situation)... I just don't like living there anymore, especially now that I'm not going to Dabney anymore and most of the few friends I had before have disappeared off to who-knows-where, or I just don't ever see them or hear from them much (if at all!) anymore. As far as things that matter to me, Alleghany County is basically an abandoned wasteland where I will eventually shrivel away if I stay too long.
Here at my apartment it's completely different. It's only a little after midnight right now and I feel like I probably *could* go to bed if I really wanted, as opposed to "go to bed NOW? why?? I could never get to sleep this early!"
Hopefully the constant lack of motivation to do anything that kept hanging over me for most of the summer clears up pretty soon too (...I've already got a job interview with Papa John's lined up for next week and sent in another job application, so... I guess that's a "maybe" on that front until further notice. XD) Speaking of lack of motivation... yeah, I completely forgot to ever post that "stuff I did over the summer after Camp Shenandoah" post I said I was going to. Whoops. For the most part the later-summer was pretty uneventful, though, aside from learning how to drive manual (so I could actually drive my car.) That, and of course the weekend when I left camp, when I had an unexpected little "mini-vacation" to Staunton! Probably the best memories of the summer, really--got to go to a west coast swing dance in Charlottesville with a friend (and managed to learn some stuff, and didn't have any trouble at all with the crowdyness or anything!), swam in the hotel pool, ate some really good food (including once at a restaurant in Staunton I'd never been to before, Baja Bean Co., where I had some really delicious shrimp tacos), and just... walked around and saw lots of neat old buildings and such. Wish I had more days like those this summer, rather than the usual "sit around the house alone and bored to death, being unable to get stuff done even though I have a lot of stuff to get done."
