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other duties today At around ten thirty Monday morning there was a knock on the door and I was told that I was good to go. The telephone number that I had been given weeks ago was now live. Through such a simple thing the outside world was available to me again. Not only could I go online once more, but people could call me. For a while both of those weren't options for me. I know that it sounds silly, but in some ways it was nice to be cut off from everything. I had been set on an electronic island of sorts and I liked it. Of course there wasn't that much time for me to be talking on the phone these past few days anyway. ... It was back to class this afternoon and I wasn't ready. We had been told to finish a book for class and I hadn't. Naturally this came back to haunt me, but there wasn't much that I could do about it. With everything happening this past weekend, moving seemed more important to me than reading a book and I have no idea if the instructor understood. What makes this even worse is that I actually liked the book that we were supposed to have read. Despite what she may think, I know that I made the right decision. I don't buy a piece of property everyday of my life. ... The word landlord has no meaning for me anymore or at the very least I no longer have one. My house is mine and I can do as I please. At the very least I no longer have to write rent checks, instead I have a mortgage. I had made plans to meet with my former landlord one more time and settle any last issues. We had agreed to meet at six thirty and I got there first. Seeing my old place completely empty was odd and I started to wonder if all of my belongings had really made it home for me and now that they were gone it wasn't my home anymore. Five years of my life had been spent in those rooms and it was sad to leave them. A returned security deposit check and a handshake ended a large part of my lfe.
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