we're not in kansas anymore

Yep, its official. It's weird to be in Madison. I hadn't left the cozy warm apartment since Saturday night when I arrived until I went out in the snow storm today to go to my work meeting. A few things have changed at the desk 1) I now work at Witte which means no Overnights like last year at Ogg 2) Overnight shifts are now paid overtime. Great. Walking down to the meeting I noticed that Pipe fitter has moved, down the block and to the opposite side of the street and that the new Lucky Apartments across from Ogg are now huge and are a dominating presence on Johnson street. When I walked down the street I half expected to know every person I passed, or at least to recognize them. I then remembered that there are over 40,000 people on this campus- not at all like the gated Laguna beach campus holding 2,000 at USFQ which i was getting used to. I didn't see anyone i knew today. Something else felt very different when I was walking past familiar apartments, houses, bars and restaurants. Practically every familiar place didn't seem as familiar anymore. Faces popped into my head of people it seems should be living there or people I'd like to call to come over and hang out or grab coffee or go to Med Cafe or laundry mats i would normally pop my head into to say hi; but those people just aren't here. The Madison I've become comfortable with has changed- or maybe I have. Who knows anymore, really.