Three years ago to this weekend…
I was working a dead-end job as an assistant manager at a paint store downtown Indy. As usual, anticipation for the weekend was about all that kept me going, and the weekend ahead was an especially important one, given the 4th of July festivities. On Thursday night (7/3/08), several friends and I went to the Tom Petty show at Deercreek, with American flags and Budweisers a plenty. Naturally, we woke Friday morning at my house hungover and still partially drunk, then decided to drive up to Chicago to stay the weekend with some friends who lived there and to meet other Indy people who were making the trip up. We ate lunch at Vines in Wrigleyville on Friday (7/4/08) and then spent the evening on the beach watching fireworks. The next day we went to the Taste for some lunch and then the Sox-A’s game at the Cell.
At the time it was simply a very fun weekend in between more shitty weeks of work. But one month later I get a call from my college career services offices, two months after that I’m hired for an incredible job with a worldwide renowned company, and three months later I’m living (sleeping on couch) in my friends condo in Chicago.
Its crazy to look back at how much my life and career have changed in the past three years, yet I can’t help but notice how the most important things in my life, my friends and family, are still there. And I’m reminded now of the aforementioned weekend three years ago: yesterday I walked across the street from work to grab some food at the Taste for lunch, and tomorrow my friends are coming up from Indy to visit. We are planning on going to the beach to watch fireworks on Saturday evening and have rooftop tickets for the Cubs-Sox game (go Sox!) at Wrigley on Sunday.
Friends are the same, shenanigans are the same; so I guess the only difference between then and now is that I’m hosting this time around, plus I make a lot more money to throw away on booze!
