i’m so sick of illinois.

it’s freeeezing cold

but it almost never snows

just an annoying frosting of ice on my windowshield that makes me late for work every morning.

the landscape is NOT pretty

ever.

not even in the spring.

i want so very badly to relocate myself. to some other state with a different type of people. maybe i’ll go south, i hear people are more patient there (we could DEFINITELY use some of that around here)

mostly i just want a change of surroundings, i think. there isn’t a lot to do here. i want vacation sooo badly, and it isn’t until August. i’d leave tomorrow if i could.

i miss colorado. and florida. and germany. and every other place i’ve ever been (which isnt’ really a lot…)

I just want to experience different things before i get too old to do it. i want to see if i can make it in a new place. surely i’d make friends in time. not that i wouldn’t miss the ones here, because i really would.

i’d miss my family, too, which is why i know that someday i’ll be back here no matter what happens. the midwest will always be my home, but i would like to try something different for awhile.

but this probably won’t happen.

i’m just keeping my eyes open, though.

-jess

I think that I’m just tired
I think I need a new town,
to leave this all behind…

augustana ~ boston

life is so precious

and so fragile.

You’re not the things they told you way back then
You’re so much more than ideas in your head
So bury them
And keep them so they can return when you’re alone
And so that you can fight them in the end

cartel ~ write the down

so the other day while a co-worker and i were enjoying our lunch at Jefferson’s, we noticed a table of people, approximately my age causing a lot of commotion. the good kind, of course.

they didn’t look like belleville kids because, for the most part, people in belleville are old, or in high school. you don’t really see the college age crowd so much. probably because they don’t exist here.

but anyway, they are taking lots of photos and, eventually, the newspaper shows up. my curiousity got the best of me. i had to see what they were doing here.

after some detective work (i asked), i discovered that they were on a mission to visit all 5 jefferson’s across the country in just 5 days. they are pretty spread out, so i would imagine it was quite the task. anyway–they have a blog about their journey.

http://www.quest4jeffersons.com/

the best part is that i’m in the blog. yep. i made it in there. a picture! and though i was clearly wearing my regions bank name tag, they decided i was a librarian.

i’m thinking of switching careers, anyway.

but check out the site, see the silly antics of the 7 crazy college kids, and have a nice evening!

-jess

through this journey
we can see all the trees
their changing leaves
this safe place where we can hide away

the album leaf ~ writings on the wall