Long week ahead…
This week is looking like it’s going to be a long one. I’m starting out with two final exams and finishing it off by moving back home to the country.
My feelings regarding the fact that I’m leaving are incredibly mixed. I had a real blast while I was here. It’s been a long three years, and I’ve made some great friends and some great memories.
At the same time, going back and leaving behind what I thought was to be a permanent change in how my life is to turn out is kind of hard. I had this wonderful vision of me becoming this sophisticated cosmopolitan type of girl, and while I embrace everything there is to embrace about my plaid jacket… well, sometimes I wonder what it could have been like if I’d not become so hell-bent on going back home.
What I want to do with my life now involves copious amounts of writing and fruit farming. My parents are retired diary farmers and they have a perfect little plot of land across the gravel road from their house. It’s river front and tile drained. The soil might be a little heavy to support strawberry root systems, but there are ways to get around almost every variety of farming problem these days.
I was outside having a cigarette at a bar the other night and I ended up talking to two boys who were from the same general region as I’m from. I was discussing with them the fact that I have a degree in sociology and will now be heading back to the farm.
“You’re taking over the dairy farm? That’s kind of exciting.”
“Oh, no, I’m not taking over the dairy farm. The cows are long gone.”
“Oh, Ok. So you’re just gonna live there and work at whatever sociologists do?”
“Oh, no, I’m going to transform it into a fruit farm.”
“So, wait. You got a degree in sociology. You came to the city to do that and get a job. But now you don’t like sociology and you want to live in the country.”
“Yeppers…”
“So now you finished your degree and you’re moving home to take over a dairy farm, but instead you’re going to turn it into a fruit farm? And write on the side?”
“Yep! You got it!”
“Are you crazy?”
“Oh, Honey. You have no idea…..”
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