Last Day at Kirkwood

Today was my last day at Kirkwood Community College. I turned in a paper and took a final. I had also scheduled an apartment visit at 2:30. My final was scheduled from 12-2 (which I had forgotten when scheduling the apartment visit). The apartment I was looking at also happened to be an hour's walk away from Kirkwood--and about the same from my current apartment. On the first 90-degree day of the year. Yay.

So, I wore flip-flops to school today. Before my final, I was talking with a guy in my class, and he offered to give me a ride to the apartment viewing.

The test took a grand total of 15 minutes. (By the way, I only needed about a 20% on the final to get 90% in the class) I waited a little bit for the classmate to finish the test, and rode out near the apartment to hang out for an hour. I walked the short distance (about a mile) to the apartment, and my right flip-flop broke a little bit before getting to the office.

So I got to walk home from the viewing barefoot most of the way. It took around an hour and a half, because I tend to walk slowly without shoes, and I stopped at the mall to use the bathroom and refill my water.

When I got home, I changed my shirt--the one I had been wearing was soaked with sweat--and washed my feet. After clearing off the dirt, I found out I had about half a dozen blisters on my feet. And more recently, I noticed that my face is a little pink--so the sun had a little effect on me.

Now my head hurts--probably the sunburn--my feet hurt, and I'm sleepy. On the bright side, the cold I've been fighting for about a month seems to have finally given up and died. I might go to bed early and sleep late. That sounds awesome right now. That or chugging a couple bottles of Mountain Dew. I've given up caffeine for the time being, and I was up to 2 24-ounce bottles a day--my last bottle was this morning. Withdrawal sucks.