August 22, 2005 at 4:37 AM

Over this past week I have been hanging out with Nate a lot and I have discovered something...he is my best friend. It's kinda funny. Jr. year we sat together during AP History and he annoyed me to death. But then I started to get to know him and found that we had many common interests, not to mention we played on the same softball team for 3 years. Now, I have gotten him two jobs, the one in Frozen and he will be taking over my position at Dakota Derm. Over the last week, Nate and some of his friends and I have hung out. It has been great, I feel like I belong now. Unfortunately, I know that this Saturday will be my last day in Sioux Falls until Fall Break (sometime in October). I will miss him a lot because I have spent a lot of time with him over the last year. He always manages to make working at Hy-Vee and training him at Dakota Derm fun and he has been a treat to train cause he learns fast. I hope he doesn't foget me over the months we are apart because I know that happens. He finally got a cell phone so we will be talking on AIM or on the phone fairly frequently. I have noticed that he is becoming closer to me as well cause we now talk basically everyday now (mostly by his iniation, which seems strange to me cause I so used to having to start a conversation with people), even if it is usually about work or training or just joking on AIM. It's still a friendship, one that I will deeply miss when I go to college.

I have just 6 nights left in my house and then I will be moving out. I will be going 4.5 hours away from the place I have known all my life as home. I will miss many things about it, espcially the friends I have here. I will miss my puppy, who suddenly likes me for some reason. I have no choice but to basically start from scratch in the whole friends department. That will be tough for me because I tend to take a long time in forming definate friendships as evidenced by my friendship with Nate (2 years to become actual friends rather than good aquatences). I have closed a chapter in my life and am about to embark on writing a new chapter, how it is written is yet to be seen.

Much of this new chapter will be written with my violin in hand. I will be majoring in music thus much of my life will center around the violin. I will make new friends because of my violin and discover things about the violin and of myself in the year to come. I am excited yet absolutely terrified of what is to come. I am worried that my friends here at home will forget I exist and that when I come home I will have no one here to great me. In the last week I have renewed my love affair with the violin and my practice has been more productive than ever before. I owe that in part to The Inner Game of Music. Fare they well Sioux Falls and my friends who still dwell around and in it's boarders, don't forget me, for I will be back and ready to return to you.

From Jim W. Miller
Posted on August 23, 2005 at 5:21 AM

Hy-Vee? Dakota Derm?

From Andrew Paa
Posted on August 28, 2005 at 5:02 AM

A grocery store (Hy-Vee) and Dakota Dermatology (a Dr's. Office). Sorry I didn't explain that.

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