to ohio and back again

i really needed a weekend and had a great one.
as everyone graduates there comes commencement! I returned to Ohio this weekend for the final chapter in a moby-dick like novel called BW. There were definitely some great experiences, and some not so great, but I can say that without it, there would not have been great things for me. I constantly think of what might have been if I had worked a lil harder or had not been so stubborn at times... I did feel like this weekend I was coming back to mostly a burnt bridge with several paths that had been severed, socially especially, but i also let down some people career wise, and financially. Maybe BW is more a small taste of who we are as ourselves and how our relationships survive and our personal values are put to the test. I felt like the experience was more of a social experiment than a place to grow educationally, well i mean of course there was education involved, but a lot of it was through social interactions. It felt like one long episode of DiGrassi. Maybe down the road I can find some truth and evidence in the ash that was left from those bridges.
The family were very supportive this weekend which made things so much better to come back to. We have had our problems in the recent past, but to get through those and come together at another time other than Christmas and Thanksgiving was special.
I got a lot of gift cards, monies, Guinness and BW alumni hats!, and several stuffed animals. :)
My return to Louisiana was a nauseating one to say the least but I am back and beginning Chapter 2 of the next novel in my life called AmeriCorps! this chapter could become the most boring, but will there be romance? or some hot sticky humid weather action in the summer months? ..yea its 90 already this morning..sweet