I completed my move to Raleigh Saturday evening. My parents and I spent most of the day Sunday unloading the UHaul and trying to find places to store my stuff. I could have sworn that I sold or gave away much of my stuff before leaving Indianapolis, but it sure didn’t seem that way as …
Category Archives: Personal
Sold my car on eBay
Today I sold my car. While it’s great to have one less thing to worry about before moving, it feels as if some of my freedom has been taken away. Do you know how you feel when you leave the house without your keys? Well it’s much worse when you realize that the reason …
Thirty sounds so old
Today I turned 30. Thirty sounds so old. And yet, I still don’t feel like a grown up. Perhaps that’s because I’m getting ready to pack up and move to Guyana. The decision and announcement that I’m going to be joining the Peace Corps really has been a nice distraction from me turning middle aged. …
CFEA surprise lunch
Everyone likes surprises. Today I had mine, for 20 of my interfraternal friends gathered for lunch to help me celebrate my thirtieth birthday and my nearing departure for the Peace Corps. I have long known many of the people who gathered for lunch today through the College Fraternity Editors Association. When I became editor of …
Focusing on my exit
This past weekend, my boss Matt Carson and coworker Jason Guyton came to Indianapolis for a departmental retreat. Naturally, the retreat was scheduled prior to me telling them that I’ll be joining the Peace Corps, for they learned of that news just five days earlier. While the purpose of the retreat was to plan the …