Jinkies. This is the end of my second week here in North Carolina and a lot has happened since I started living here.

Angela and I packed me up as best as we could before I left. We rented a cargo van and thought that we could put as much stuff in there as possible for my apartment. We got almost everything in there – couch, books, clothes, lamps, a bureau, my queen sized mattress, various other things. And then finally we tried to put in the very last piece of furniture: my box spring. Wouldn’t you know it that it wouldn’t fit? So we wound up leaving it behind.

We finally got to drive down on an early Saturday morning. The CD player in my truck is broken so Angela was in the exact same boat that I was in while I drove the cargo van. Both of us had to listen to the radio. I had the furniture and the big ol’ van, Angela got the Jeep and the pooches. We stayed in contact by cell phone and had a wonderful time trying to tell each other what we were listening to. The best part was when we got past Richmond and I started listening to a religous channel. It was, to say the least, amazing. Not in some sort of religous awakening kind of way, but more along the lines of ‘why are they trying to brainwash children at such a young age??’. The show was a children’s show and it consisted of story telling with themes of what it is like to be a good Christian, how happy everyone is to be a good Christian and how Christianity is the A-#1-super deluxe religion. I feared for my soul.

Morrisville seemed to be very remote. I was near the airport and some train tracks. It was, to say the least, slightly depressing. Angela only stayed the evenning and left early Sunday morning. And it was lonely. Rainy and lonely. I was alone with the dogs in a foreign state and a small city. I was sad. So very, very sad. The dogs were confused and seemed sad, too. Having moved from their nice, comfy house with a back yard to a two bedroom apartment and constantly being told to be quiet would bring you down, too.

I’ll finish this later. I need to walk my pooches right now (yes, at 5am).