Replacements
Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like I have been trying to find replacements for the things and people I left, ever since I got here…
Maybe it’s a natural reaction, a way of trying to comfort oneself in a new place. First off, there was the family. I left a very solid family in Northern Virginia, who cooked Sunday breakfast pancakes and read the Washington Post in our dining room, grilled on our back deck during the summer and made home-made salsa. (which I’m still begging them to send me)
Now when I get home my room-mates and I have formed this kind of structure and we’ve even started joking about it. I get home from work and dinner is on the table. Sunday is my day off so we all wake up and cook pancakes. Sure, it’s no longer the Washington Post and I don’t have two brothers to compete with, but it’s starting to feel familiar.
Though some things can fill the void like Spinnaker’s burgers instead of Carytown Burgers, (best burger joint in Richmond, VA) or concerts in the park instead of Reston Town Center (a musical summer tradition for my friends and family,) I’m beginning to realize there are some things that are just irreplaceable.
For one of which, I’ve tried desperately to find a temporary understudy.
Back home I have a 14-year-old cat named Misty who is probably sitting on the chair in front of the computer at this moment because that’s where she has been since she saw my mom chatting with me on a web-cam.
Here, I have a beta fish, and just yesterday I got a mildly-entertaining gecko, but you can’t pet them and they certainly don’t know what to do with a piece of string if you dangle it near their nose. I don’t even know if my fish has a nose. I tried to pet the gecko but it just jumped away and then my roommate screamed because she couldn’t find it for a while.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re neat animals, fishes and lizards, but they don’t talk, they don’t come when you snap your fingers, and it just wouldn’t be safe for them to sleep at the foot of your bed. The point is, none of these fill-in animals can replace my funny fur-ball, Misty. She really is one in a million.
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About Me
I was born and raised just outside the nation's capital in northern Virginia, and recently graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a major of Broadcast Journalism and minor in International Relations. I studied abroad for a while in Italy and also traveled to Shanghai, China for a journalism class. During college I worked at CBS6 in Richmond, VA as well as FOX5 in Washington D.C. I'm glad to be in sunny Florida and look forward to making Panama City my home for the next few years...
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