The year in review
In a few weeks, it will be almost a year since I moved up to DC for my first-ever job in the real world. I just re-read some of my entries from the beginning of my blog (which I created the same time I moved here) and was struck at how exciting yet bittersweet I found my first few weeks in the area. New places always invigorate me, but at the same time I was wishing for home. It's funny how little things really change as the time flies away.
I don't feel like it's been a year. When I think about all the experiences I've had individually--it's more like decades! :-) I think I've definitely taken advantage of most of the opportunities, at work and socially, that have come my way, but I still feel like I'm missing out on some things.
Granted, I have only been here one year. That's not a whole lot of time in comparison to the 18 years I spent in Clover or the 4 years at Furman. But I guess when I was a kid and in school I was always waiting for that next step that would propel me into grownup-dom, so I spent a lot of my time thinking about the future and expecting my graduation from college to solve all the little problems and frustrations of being a kid. And now that I'm here...well, I'm not sure that adulthood is really all it's cracked up to be!! Haha. It's liberating in a way and I have become more adjusted to it in the past year, but it's filled with (probably more) little problems and frustrations of its own. Oh, to be back where my biggest concern was whether to play in the front yard or the back yard today...
It's all okay, though. I have plenty of time to master the art of growing up. No reason to be in any great rush at the moment!
posted by Lark at 11:39 PM
3 Comments:
adults rule!!!!!
i love you.
duckie
6:52 PM
If you do the math, which of course I always do, you end up with the following table:
Location, Length
Clover, 18
Furman, 4
DC, 1
If you express the length of time spent in a location as e raised to the power of N, the table included each value of N is as follows:
Location, Length, e^N,N=
Clover, 18, ~1.2
Furman, 4, ~0.6
DC, 1, 0.0
Now, you'll notice that the difference in N is approximately a constant -0.625 change between locations. Let's factor this projected constant into the foreseeable future:
Location, Length, e^N,N=
Clover, 18 years, ~1.25
Furman, 4 years, ~0.60
DC, 1 year, 0.0
Future1, 6.4 months, -0.625
Future2, 3.4 months, -1.25
Future3, 1.84 months, -1.875
Future4, 29 days, -2.5
Looking at these numbers, you'll notice the time in each location gets smaller and smaller. This kind of mathematical set where each element is calculated by it's position in the set is called a series, and the fun thing about this particular series is that it converges. When you calculate it out far enough, a curious thing happens at the total length of 24.15175, which works out to Lark being 24 years, 1 month and 24 days old. Specifically at around 3:05 in the afternoon.
At this point Lark ceases to be in one place at one time. The time she is at each location takes an infinite dive towards zero. By the time 3:06 rolls around, my only interpretation is that she will simultaneously exists EVERYWHERE.
Thus, Lark will become a star less than 2 months after she turns 24. I would advise buying sunglasses.
1:50 PM
That's December 17 for those of you who are counting. Save the date!
9:59 PM
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