today is the first day of my break from school. it's feeling nice, i have to say... my dad asked on the phone over the weekend if i was working on my homework. i laughed and asked that my dad show me a bit of mercy and that i really did deserve a little bit of time off. he thought i should be getting ready for the summer term already. i am not. i am going to enjoy basking in my 3.83 GPA and decidedly NOT think about school until i go back on 2 June.
today also is wallace's first day at his new job. i enjoyed taking him to work this morning, partially because i like the route we have choosen to take from our house to get there.
atlanta is such an interesting place to me. i love that i've lived here for almost seven years now, and there are still SO many places that i've never been or seen. i always enjoy discovering new things here.
one street we have to travel to get to wallace's new job is a rather upscale neighborhood. well, i'm not sure if upscale is precisely the right word. to me, it's much closer to mind-blowing. some of the homes there have their own names for gods' sakes. they are castles made of brick and stone and glass, bigger than any home i've ever been in my whole life. they fascinate me to the point of distraction (not so great when i'm the person driving the car) but i have to wonder just where do people get the money to live in places like that? even moreso, i wonder how one gets enough money to BUILD one of those fortresses, as per their specific instructions to live in?
these places are just so massive, they completely boggle my mind. they are beautiful, no doubt. we wonder together on the way to work how it is to live in one of these places. i mention the slums down the road, for the new development selling only $700,000 homes. i wonder how the other people in the neighborhood look upon those poor souls. is it like what i think when i see a particularly run down trailer park?
wallace laughs and mentions the bridge that one of the homes has to actually get to the house. he imagines the people inside getting a warning about jehovah's witnesses approaching the driveway, or some wayward girl scouts trying to hawk cookies, and mentions raising the drawbridge or releasing the hounds. i giggle hysterically, trying to imagine it.
i mean, i understand how actors and the CEOs of the enrons of the world could afford and would want to live in some of these places, but -- i know that whitney and bobby live in alpharetta, not in sandy springs. and i know that elton has a penthouse condo downtown. honestly, who lives in these places along northside drive and heard's ferry? many millionaires, to be sure. but, what do they do?
anyway, i have much work to do, as this is the first day of only two weeks i have to try to clean and organize my house before savannah is finished with school. i've been dying to purge our house for a while, but haven't been able to find time with school and everything else. so, that is my plan for the next two weeks. i can focus on that before i have to return to school and worry about classes over the summer. and with everyone out of the house every day i should be able to keep things relatively clean afterwards, right?
gods, i hope so. yeah, right.
Posted by lara at May 10, 2004 09:51 AM | TrackBack