Nostalgia

Today was a long day. I went to work and sat through two hours of meetings this morning, which always makes the day feel longer for some reason, and then rode the school bus up to WSU with a bunch of awesomely cute high school kids for an English competition. It was a lot of fun. I got to judge the Reader's Theater, and there were some really great dramatic readings. Being back on the university campus always makes me want to go back to school, but this time was different. The last time I went up I was taking a test in the Social Sciences Building, and it made me want to take some classes and be a student again at this point in my life. But our competition today was in the student union building, and it just made me want to go back to *that time of my life and be a student again. I hope my kids will enjoy every minute of it and really jump into the whole college life with both feet, because there's so much fun to be had. They have completely remodeled the student union building, and it's beautiful, but it's a weird feeling when that happens. It's like... all my memories are gone! The Funky Carpet Room where we used to eat Subway for lunch all the time... Gone. The downstairs bathroom with the ratty old couch and the linoleum floor with full-length mirror where Nicky used to "practice" clogging just to be weird... Gone. The bookstore no longer downstairs, the vending machine no longer by the Wildcat Theater. It's just so weird to think back on that time of my life and how close it seems, yet how far back it really is. I can't even imagine going back to BYU at this point... I probably wouldn't recognize half of it.