It's the end of an 11-year odyssey for me. I don't know what else to say, other than that most of it was absolutely great. NPU isn't a perfect place -- no place is -- but it was the right place for me.
Two nights ago, I had a dream that I had graduated and moved off campus, but never actually cleaned out my dorm room in Burgh hall -- it was still locked up. I had to go clean it out to leave. When I opened he door, there was all my dorm room junk -- the loft, the desk, my old 13-inch monitor, the homemade burgh hall desks. Everything was covered in dust and looked about 6 years forgotten.
Somehow, my houseplants were all still alive, and I specifically remember there being a cool bonsai tree in there (although I didn't do bonsai in college). I also had a fish tank with all these alien-looking animals (something else that wasn't true to life). One type of animals were "Blood Minnows," that were these fish, but they looked almost more like mottled leeches. But there were also leeches, and some kind of crabby-spider type thing. Anyway, they miraculously survived because one of the houseplants bore fruit which dropped into the tank and the animals ate the fruit, and then they also ate each other -- but had reached an equilibrium within their little ecosystem.
Anyway... it was a weird dream. I told alhp about it last night, and she said, "awwww.... you had a 'leaving north park dream'" In telling it now, if I were to interpret it, I would say that it was about finally leaving, physically and maybe psychologically, the last vestiges of still being in college, still being in that kind of "undergraduate" mentality.
Anyway, I have a <b>lot</b> to get done today, so I better get crackin'.
I will miss: working for NPU and my memories of burgh hall.
I won't miss: blood minnows. yuck.
Thanks, North Park.
Wed Jun 08 08:37:22 today is my last day:
