This Time of Year

"There's a feeling in the air,
Just like a Friday afternoon..."

So there I was at the gym, loving on my ipod, drowning out the rest of the world, and loosing myself to "deep thought" music. I decided to change it up a little and take a spin on the ole treadmill, rather than my normal eliptical machine. It was just like power-walking!! My mind drifted back to college, which was just a little over a year ago-eventhough it seems like ages. I could remeber every path me and Jenny and Katie and Chas took on our couple-hours-long power walks while we talked about life, love, and sorority house drama. Those were the days. In my mind's eye i can remeber every inch of that campus: that muddy section on the sidewalk in front Hume that I always manage to get stuck in, the japanesse magnolia on the corner of Bondurant that had the biggest and most gorgeous blooms every spring, that bump in the sidewalk in front of the library that I couldnt help byh trip on daily, that rediculously steep hill heading from coliseum drive up to the education building (and how we always got "hollas" from the phi beta sigma house as we passed by), and of course the grove and the circle that just cant be put into words because it's not something that isnt meant to be written about; it's meant to be felt. Gosh i miss that place. If i could do it all over again, here is what i would do:
1. spend an hour just walking around that campus every day
2. make it to one of those early morning walks around campus with the cancellor
3. miss more sorority meetings
4. spend more friday afternoons at sardis
5. eat luch at the union on a Thursday and hear one of those student bands play
6. go to thacker mountain radio ritually
7. go to a frickin baseball game for crying out loud!!!

Ah well, grad school is just around the corner. I'm sure there are more good times ahead of me. So here is the question I pose tonight: If you could do it all over again, what would you do different?