Two of my very favorite people in the world are my friend Ingrid and her soon to be husband (who is also my friend), Jon. I got an email from Ingrid yesterday to let me know that they are planning on moving to
Ingrid visited Matt and me in January and told us Jon was applying to PhD programs, “he’s setting his sights a bit high – Rutgers, Harvard, and Yale – and he’s starting to realize these are a bit of a stretch so he’s starting to look at some more realistic programs.” There was nothing deprecating in her tone – she loves this guy times forever – but Jon likes to say he’s “not the smartest guy in the world,” just a guy that LOVES science. Well Jon looks like you might be wrong, Mr. Turned Down Harvard.
After a wedding in June, the two of them are packing up their glamorous life in
On the way home from work yesterday Matt and I talked about the excitement – me announcing that I’ll spend my first teacher’s summer as Jon and Ingrid’s live in chef – he approving the idea to move on to gushing about how much he loves Jon with all this heart (Jon is giving Matt a boat, just because).
When our conversation turned to silence I hesitated and then said, “I’m jealous.” I elaborated: new life, new home, new adventure. Matt paused, “Yeah, I am too.”
It is a different kind of feeling than I have had in the past, which was a panicky selfishness, an “I’m not ready for a change, really, but neither should anyone else around me.” It is more of a feeling of inspiration - and motivation. Now I’m just caught up in the romance of their alternations (I’m especially a sucker for life changes led by education) and know that I (we’ll) be there someday. Maybe Jon’ll let us be deck swabbers on him fancy schmancy Oceanographer boat.
3 comments:
do you mean ingrid, ingrid?! geez maura we need to catch up!! give her my love!
Stop trying to rush around so much! RELAX.
HELLOOOO SOUTH OF MASON DIXON LINE = RELAXING. That is what we do.
Dude, I’m not a southern girl…I don’t want to sip lemonade, I want adventure.
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