There are words I never thought I'd say and then there are words that I
hoped I would never say and these words are the ones that I hoped I wouldn't say, "I miss the college days." Yes, I said it.
I miss college. Or maybe it's not that I miss college as much as I miss the people that made college fun. I woke up this morning feeling a bit empty inside. My heart is just missing something special. I realize that what I'm feeling empty about is my friends from college. I miss them more than words can describe. This group of friends are special. I know that when we are in our forties and sixties we will still be having get-togethers and it will be like we never lived hundreds of miles from each other.
I met this group of friends (The Boggtrotters are what we call ourselves) while working at ETSU Financial Aid Office. We all worked in the back file room. Working in the file room is absolutely the most BORING job you can have on the face of the planet, but I can honestly say that I enjoyed going to work just because my friends were there and I knew that from the time I walked in to the time I left I would be laughing my head off. We had a blast in that office (on most days, anyway.) Not all of the people that worked in the file room were our friends though, but we always tried to make an effort. There were 8 of us that just clicked from day one and we've been Boggtrotters ever since. We had some crazies that worked with us and when I say crazy, I mean CrAzY! We had a lady that called herself a witch (casting spells and all) who was a Social Work major and locked herself INSIDE her house one day, yikes! We had a worker that would come in so high from smoking pot that you would feel like you were getting high too just from her smell (She only lasted a couple of weeks.) And there were many other crazies too. But it was fun. And I can't remember ever laughing as much as I did when I was there. But then graduations started happening and one by one someone was gone and it eventually wasn't fun anymore. But those are days I'll never forget.
We started hanging out outside of the office and that's when the real fun began. We had weekly dinners and there were weekly tv shows some of us would come together to watch (One Tree Hill, Laguna Beach, The Hills). We were always getting into something. Out of the 8 of us, there was only one guy. Travis. And oh my goodness he's a funny man. He was usually the reason behind our laughs. You don't even understand until you meet him. I usually brought my video camera along with us just to capture some of the funny things Travis would do. We still laugh til this day about some of the things he's done or said.
I just miss having them around to laugh with and to be silly with. Sometimes people just need to be silly. The few get-togethers we have a year is just not enough, but of course I'll take what I can get. I can still sit here and laugh about something that happened 6 years ago and I will hold onto those memories for a lifetime.
Now, we are all married, except for Travis (but he has an awesome girlfriend that I'm crossing my fingers for him to marry) and our husbands have all become really good friends too. So it makes it that much more fun to have all the girls and their hubbys at reunions. I think the husbands talk to eachother on the phone more than us gals do these days. It's funny how close they all are. I love it!
I guess I woke up missing my friends so much this morning because they threw me and Erin (a boggtrotter who is pregnant also- we're a week a part) a surprise baby shower on Saturday. And now that we are all back to our busy, grown up lives and I won't be seeing them for a few months, it makes me sad.
I just want to go back to college and work in Fin Aid- just for one day. Just to have a good laugh and make my heart happy.
