Time Sure Does Fly By

I went up to the old apartment in Uptown to snap a few pictures for the “Where I’ve Lived” photo album. Hopefully I’ll have all the pictures to make that thing live by the end of the summer. I did make an update to the photo album, though. The new car now has a place on the cars page of the photo album.

Visiting the old apartment brought back all kinds of old memories. Old feelings, old friends, old occasions. I lived in Uptown (south Minneapolis) for about a year, had two roommates, and I’ve lost touch with both of them already. I never got too close to the one guy, he was an animation student who kind of kept to himself and had his own circle of friends elsewhere.

The other roommate I became pretty good friends with because he was kind of a chatterbox and you could never get him to shut up. He got kind of hard to hang around, because it was himself that he was always blabbering and bragging about. He would have done anything to help you out when you needed it though, if you could wade through all his self-centeredness you could find a genuinely nice person. His extroversion clashed with my introversion from time to time, and we butted heads a few times, but we were ultimately friends, never enemies.

He dropped out and moved to Wyoming to pursue something else not long after I moved out, so he wasn’t around for my last half of college. I never heard from him again. The other guy moved on to another school I believe, which was probably a smart thing. Computer animation is an even tougher field to make it in than Graphic Design is. And i’ll be the first to tell you Graphic Design is an incredibly tough field to break into.

There were a few others in the building I would have liked to have kept in touch with. Especially this one fellow who lived down the hall, who was one of the most brilliant and interesting people I’d ever met and we shared a lot of interests. But, he found out he wasn’t going to make it in animation also, and moved back to Iowa. I was going to get his contact info, but when I went to get it, he was already gone.

People come and go in your life pretty quickly. That seems to be happening to me a lot lately. People at work who have quit or been terminated, I quickly lose touch with these people who had otherwise become pretty good friends. It’s hard to get used to this. Growing up where I did, the same people were always around. These days I’m always seeing new faces, and before I know they’re gone and I’m getting to know new people again.

As I walked around the old apartment snapping some pictures, I had a lot of memories of those first few months I was here in Minneapolis. In a way they felt like they happened so long ago, but in other ways it seemed like it was just yesterday. Unbelievable, it’s been almost a year since I graduated from college, 7 months since I started my current job, and almost a year and a half since I quit working at the bank. Three and a half years since I started seeing Lizzie.

Time flies, I guess. I mean, summer is already half over. Thursday is my birthday already, wasn’t I just talking about finally turning 21? Well, now I’m going to be 22. Lizzie’s birthday is on the 17th (Sunday) so we’re trying to plan something special for the weekend to celebrate both of our birthdays. My work automatically gives me the day off, so I’ll have to find something to do on Thursday. I’ll probably sit around and twiddle my thumbs.

Today I’m just going to go try and enjoy this hot and sunny day. See you next time.