Today I drove my nephew to one of my my alma maters,
Fairmont State, to take his ACT test. I volunteered saying "I know the town and the cams like the back of my hand". That must have been the hand I keep behind my back, because I was practically lost. Come to think of it, it's been 18 years since I sat foot on campus. I knew student population had doubled in size and it looks like the buildings and campus grounds have tripled. I walked around thinking about what I got from 4 years there and then back again 18 years later a different person.
Now confession time - I'm the kind of guy who is shocked every time I look in the mirror. I don't feel my age, and some might say I don't act it. I catch myself saying things like, "yeah, about 10 years ago I was..." and then I think about it and it's really been 20. So in a way it was kind of a downer for me being there today and realizing it had been so long ago, both in years and in water under the bridge.
But hey, I got my peps here :)
