Cleaning the Inbox

I just cleaned out my e-mail inbox- I went from 746 to 75. Oh yeah. Another one of the items on my summer 'to do' list can now be crossed off. :)

I've spent this week being slightly productive and completely relaxed. It's been divine. My linens are all refolded and rearranged so the edges don't show. My car had an oil change and a bath. I cleaned out several binders from my bookcases. (The hallway bookcase still needs to be tackled. It has all the materials I gathered for textbook adoption this past year. On second thought, maybe it'll just stay like that this year until we actually complete the adoption process.) I applied for a passport, ordered more checks at the bank, painted, ran, biked, wrote letters, etc.

Despite the fact that I've spent the past 6 school years in IN, this is actually the first time I've spent any relatively significant portion of summer vacation in the state. During college I'd return to MI to see my family and work. Even this year I went to NC to work for a few weeks. But now I'm here, in IN, at my apartment, my official place of residence, just hanging out. And it's not at all odd. Perhaps it has something to do with how happy I was to see the corn fields when I returned to the state (yes, excited, and that is in no way an exaggeration) or how familiar, normal, and right it felt to be driving back into town and my apartment complex.