One Week (but not like that Barenaked Ladies song)

I have a little over a week left in Kirksville and it's really messing with me emotionally. I randomly cry throughout the day or just when random songs come up on shuffle. Though I know I'll get over it eventually, it doesn't subside the fact that I am just really sad about leaving someone behind. But it's not even that, I'm not even leaving him, he's leaving before I am. Because of recent changed plans, I'll have to hastily say good-bye in between JBA obligations. A good-bye that I've played out in my head time and time again doesn't involve a sunny day and me having to wipe away the tears and head back to C-hall to foresee a wire-puppet-making activity. 

I think back to last summer and how things have changed so much since then. Different friends, different priorities (somewhat). I was so excited to come back for my senior year and it went by in a big, big blur. I wouldn't take back anything that has happened and I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat. 

Today, I saw a trailer for a new movie coming out called "500 Days of Summer." Synopsis:

"Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn't. This post modern love story is never what we expect it to be--it's thorny yet exhilarating, funny and sad, a twisted journey of highs and lows that doesn't quite go where we think it will. When Tom, a hapless greeting card copywriter and hopeless romantic, is blindsided after his girlfriend Summer dumps him, he shifts back and forth through various periods of their 500 days "together" to try to figure out where things went wrong. His reflections ultimately lead him to finally rediscover his true passions in life."

If I could, I'd make this next week last forever.

- Jessica.