Time Traveling

Took the doggies out to the park today and had to get my car cleaned and vacuumed afterwards because they tracked mud and umm..doggie spittle...all over. E and I went to Shoney's and wayyyy over-did the buffet. I was shocked I could stuff that much into one meal. But man, that cornbread and pudding was awesome, not to mention the potatoes and mac n cheese and salad and...ok I'll stop there to maintain a level of dignity. Met one of my coworkers at Barnes and got to complain a little bit about my boss. (Me?! Complain about my boss!?) My schedule's been switched around AGAIN, so it's impossible to organize my life! I can't wait for that blissful Springtime horizon to dawn when I can happily exit and begin anew. Somewhere else. Not that I'm itching to leave GA as such. Yesterday I heard a snippet of "GA on my Mind" on the radio and tears came to my eyes, corny or not. I've put 6 years of my life into this place. I think I'll come back again to visit a year down the line. Yeah. I need to tell myself that to muster the courage to leave. Because as some of you may or may not know, it's not really the town I'm so afraid of leaving, but a person. Ouch, did I say that out loud? But anyway, it's more than even one person. It's people. People I don't even hang out with anymore but people who really have meant a lot to me in the past. I had the best days of my life here in Athens, just playing music and listening to music and talking about music and acting like a bigshot and BEing a bigshot, a big fish in a very little pond. That's all been (as a collection) over with for years now, but every now and again I hear the sounds of downtown and I remember. Or a crawler on CNN mentions someone I used to know, or a magazine cover catches my eye and just for a second I think: Well, if I REALLY wanted to go back....