Moving Up!

Marie is moving today....far far away from home.

After deciding "not" to go to vet school, she opted to take some job with some big company in her field. Did i mention that her field is animal science, and that this company deals with pork. Oh yeah, her dream job.

Actually i don't know how excited or unexcited she is about this job, i couldn't get much out of her about the job when we hung out. We met up yesterday for a "going away" day. I admit, besides the first year of college, Marie and I have not hung out that much. I rarely make the attempt to pull her from her friends when I'm in town. Sometimes i have felt like an inconvenience when i call, so eventually i just stopped calling her altogether and decided if she wanted to talk to me she could call.

I've been home almost 2 weeks and have avoided her phone calls. The first week was pure R & R and then for mother's day weekend i spent 3 "full filled" days at my grandmothers house. My very social grandma threw a mother's day party on Sunday for family and friends, where my mom endlessly pimped me out to relatives. It was pretty hilarious hearing her tell everyone in her vicinity that i was "graduating soon and that money always makes a nice gift".

We got back into town on Monday, and since then have been cruising around town wanting to spend money but realizing that we have to save so i can move somewhere in August. Marie called me sometime during this two week period, but I've just been ignoring her calls or texting her. I finally got in touch with her on Sunday to only find out she was moving officially on Thursday.

In March, when she went to the job interview, she looked at some apartments in town. 2 months later and she has a 2 bedroom duplex waiting for her arrival. She says the town she is moving to is sort of like a college town, so there will be enough people her age to hang out with. When she picked me up yesterday, all we talked about was her new move. Which i wouldn't have had a problem with if it didn't seem like she was selling me a used car.

"It's going to be great!" "I'm going to make so much money I may never want to go back to school!" "I live only 25 minutes away from a law school!!!". I mean of course she admitted that she was nervous about the move and the job but then she would say "But I'm going to start with a 50K income!".

We didn't do anything spectacular yesterday. We went to Target to look for a polka dot dress (which i have been obsessing about lately). Then we drove to some car dealerships because she is getting a new car for her graduation present. After being hounded by car dealers we went to the bookstore to look over the car brochures and talk about...her move again.

She is mainly concerned with meeting people. She feels meeting people at work will be problematic, because,well, how many 20 somethings are looking for pig jobs. Apparently she is going to be a semi-boss over people (but in all honesty i don't think she really knows what her job is). She feels that as a boss you shouldn't be friends with your co-workers. Whatever.

She met most of her friends in class and now because she isn't in school any more, she is afraid of being alone. Plus, a recurring theme for her is that she wants to date more. Like the new winner of America's Next Top model (the other girl should have won) Marie is a "full figured girl". She's tall and hippy which means she looks bigger than she really is. She also gained a shit load of weight during college and is a little self conscious about her clothing.

While we were at target looking for the polka dot dress she went on and on about wanting to have a dating life (Who doesn't). She doesn't wanted something serious, just a few dates with hot boys. I wish a dating life was my only concern post graduate career, but I'm not so lucky.

It was a weird visit. I didn't feel like she was moving away, but like she was just going back to her apartment and that i would see her again in just a few short days. I know we will still be friends but there was something "real" as she drove away to her new life. Graduating college is really the beginning of our new lives, and some days it is more scary than exciting.