Vaya con dios

So i'm writing this post as i lay on my bedroom floor. Everything i own, well at least the good stuff, is packed in a UHaul, bound for South Da-FREAKIN-kota tomorrow.

And i'm sad. I've been driving around Texas a lot lately, having gone to A&M the past couple of weekends, and last sunday night when i left college station, not to return until god knows when, i was honest to goodness depressed. I have a feeling that sadness will intensify as soon as i cross the Red River.

I grew up an Army brat, so i was all used to being the new kid. I was always ready to move on to a new part of my life and see new things. Whether it was Northern VA, Denver, or Richmond, the new moves brought new hopes. When i found out at the end of my 8th grade year that i would be moving to Texas, oh my goodness was i excited. I had been to Texas once before, we drove down one thanksgiving from Denver to watch A&M play Arkansas, and i was jazzed about being able to call myself a "Texan".

So here we are, 10 years later. I went from bein the new kid freshman year in HS to being a BMOC my sr. year. Then i went and spent the better part of a decade (6 years for those that are counting) in my 2nd home, Aggieland, learning about all kinds of things, from books to what kind of man i was and would become.

On the eve of my departure from the Lone Star State, i feel a feeling that i haven't felt in about 10 years. Fear, uneasiness, insecurity. I've got to be the new kid all over again, except this time, i'm a man, and have a job, and have other responsibilities.

I want to thank my SA GC buddies lifesaver and SATX. After leaving A&M and all my brothers behind in either Dallas or Houston, this summer had little prospect of being any fun. Y'all have definately made my last summer here one of the best. Thanks to all my other GC buddies, Hootie, AGDiva, Earpman, and some of the rest, too notorious to mention.

lol, i don't know why i'm writing like i'm leaving GC, i'm only leaving Texas, i'll be sure to come hunt y'all down when i get established somewhere.

in closing, i'm going to leave y'all with the words of the great Gary P. Nunn

You ask me what I like about Texas
I tell you it's the wide open spaces!
It's everything between the Sabine and the Rio Grande.
It's the Llano Estacado, It's the Brazos and the Colorado;
Spirit of the people down here who share this land!

You ask me what I like about Texas
It's the big timber roundneck Nacadoches
It's driving El Camino Real into San Antone
It's the Riverwalk and Mi Tierra Dancing to the Cotton-eyed Joe
It's stories of the Menger Hotel and the Alamo!
(You remember the Alamo!)

Hey, you ask me what I like about Texas
It's Blue Bonnet and Indian paint brushes
Swimming in the sacred waters of Barton Springs
It's body surfing at Freo
It's Saturday night in Del Rio!
Driving across the border for some cultural exchange!

It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!
It's a quarter for the jukebox, boys,
Play the Sons of the Mother Lovin' Bunkhouse Band!


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Kitso
KS 361 seconds i could stay away from Texas and it would be too long.