Just in case you don't know...

I am moving away from the state of Oklahoma in two days time. I will be moving to Colorado and living with Rodney. The reason for this is ultimately to attend graduate school at the university of Colorado in Boulder. I would love to go to graduate school at OU but unfortunately they do not offer a masters or doctorate degree in linguistics, making it necessary to seek further education elsewhere.

Although I have tried to make this fact clear to many of my loved ones, they are still emotionally stricken by the fact that I'm leaving. Let me state it clearly that I too am sad to be leaving. I have already become home sick and I haven't even left yet. I sit here in my half-empty room with tears welling in the corners of my eyes, lamenting the fact that I'm about to leave my home of twenty-four years for who-knows-how-long. My one respite is that I know that I will be back. I can't be gone from Oklahoma for too long. I love it far too much. I travel a lot and every single time I return I am overjoyed to find my lazy rolling hills, long flat vistas, wheat, crazy weather, and beautiful sunsets. I was born in this state and I will most certainly die in this state. And probably in this very city. Big cities make me nervous and anxious, and small towns can become quite boring after a while, but Norman is just right. A happy medium of all the things I like about human civilization. Plus it has the Sooners. I can't ever be too far from my Sooners.


Well, I know that way back some time ago I promised that this Blog was not going to feature overly emotional content, but I think this time it's worth it. This is a major stepping stone in my life, and it needs documentation. To all of you who are sad about my leaving, especially my poor mother, who will never read this but still will cry every night I am gone, I love you all very much. Hell, I even love those of you who don't seem to care one way or another about it. Know that I will miss you all and remember you all the time, probably long after you cease to care that I'm gone. I leave you all with this quote by one of my favorite authors:

"Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?"
- The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Steven King