Eight Bucks.

Last night I went to see the movie “The Nanny Diaries,” and it was great, but made me miss being in college even more terribly than I already do. You wanna know why? $8.25, that’s why--a gentle, lovely slap in the face welcoming me once again to the real world. It’s the first movie I have seen since I graduated, and Simpson students know one of the glorious things about Campus Activities Board’s Stormy Nights is $2 movies on Friday and Saturday nights at the theatre in town. Anyway, after I passed out from the oh-my-golly-it-costs-eight-dollars-to-go-to-a-movie-now shock, was resuscitated and peeled off the floor, I made my way into the theatre—it was a very cute, funny movie.

$2 movies are only one of the things I miss about being a student. Watching everyone move in this weekend and walking to their first day of classes today made me miss my college friends—a lot! The great majority of my friends graduated too, and aren’t around here anymore. I live with two of my good friends from Simpson, and we often find ourselves in a discussion about how different life is now...good, but very different—we’re usually pretty good at realizing that like it or not, we couldn’t have stayed in college forever. The adjustment into college is difficult for some, but I think that adjusting to being out is much, much harder…alas. Days of $2 movies, you still have my heart.

Anyway, after the movie, my roommate and I decided that the day called for some music-therapy; this meant we needed to roll the windows down, turn the music up, and sing very loudly to our favorite song (Rachel Yamagata’s “Reasons Why”) from our favorite soundtrack (“The Last Kiss”). It was still about 90 degrees and extremely humid, but rather than roll the windows up, we coupled the breeze with the AC on high—because sometimes when life feels crazy, and the moon is full, all a girl really needs is to feel the wind blow through her hair…