Reluctant Return

Well, just in case anybody is wondering, I am safe and sound back in Austin. Once more, nothing of real import happened on the trip back, unless you count almost sleeping through the bus's stop in Austin. Fortunately, the bus driver was going through the bus asking for people's tickets and managed to wake me up with little effort.

Anyways, I suppose I should go through what little occurred on my last day in Oklahoma. First thing I should mention, Kitiy fortunately did not do any sort of attempt at running away. I'm hoping this will last, mostly because she does need to finish high school. I still want to be with her though.

Anyways, I started out my day with a continental breakfast and a shower, as all days should begin. Well, all days should begin with a full-fledged breakfast of several helpings, but I only think this because I absolutely love breakfast food.

I got to packing when that was done, being that her dad called me and said he'd come by at about 11am. I was just about done when Kitiy knocked on my door. All I really had left to pack up was my laptop. At least...so I thought. But I'll get into that later.

First thing we did, I think, was stop at the Army Surplus store for the hell of it. And because I've always wanted to buy myself a katana, and they apparently have several of the real deal for sale at low prices. Hell, they even have had two flails, a pair of sai, a battleaxe, a morning star, and two claymores. They even had a sword in the style of Ichigo, from Bleach! I will make a visit and purchase some sort of blade someday, but I'm attempting to hold back on money-spending as best as I can.

Anyways, we stopped by Walgreen's to get one of my disposable cameras developed to be picked up later. It was the one that I still had from that Project Graduation about two years ago. I think the age might be bad for such cameras, because it seems like some of the photos that I took aren't there, and the negatives do include two blank strips.

Anyways, we went back to her place then and ate some food. She decided to make some sort of special snack for us involving honey and peanut butter. She put that onto a slice of regular bread and toasted the other side, then put it together as a sort of sandwich. Definitely tasty, and messy.

We let the food settle for a bit, then for some reason we decided to make a visit to the neighborhood pool. Neither of us are very socially inclined, but I recall that she suggested swimming at one point. Well...she'd wanted to go to one a tad less populated by people. So we went there and did some swimming for an hour or two. I remember her her complaining that she was starting to get a tan from all of our outdoor activities. Yes, she likes being ghostly pale.

By that point we only had a couple hours left together. My bus departure time was 5:55pm, which meant I had to be there at around 5pm or so. It was about 4pm that we discovered I'd forgotten to take my bus tickets with me when I checked out of the hotel. Oops! x.x

Well, we went to Walgreens and picked up my photos, and then decided to check the hotel just to be sure. Naturally, the room had already been cleaned and my tickets were not to be found. So I had to spend $88.50 to buy new tickets down to Austin. How troublesome.

So we waited at the bus terminal until it was time for me to leave, chatting a bit. I made sure to thank her dad one last time for being so very hospitable about me visiting his daughter. He said that I impressed him a lot in doing this, which I find to be a bit of surprise, but I am pleased. I think, all in all, this trip was a great success, and certainly very enjoyable.

So the clock got to about 5:40pm...and they finally announced to start boarding my bus. I shook her father's hand, hugged Kitiy goodbye...well, actually, she hugged me very tightly goodbye. And by very tightly, I mean it was almost painful and my eyes might have bugged out a bit. It wasn't a very long goodbye, but we hugged for a bit, saying our dramatic farewells, and then we parted.

Trust me, it was a bit of a struggle for me to actually walk onto that bus. I didn't want to have to leave her after we finally met in person. There will be other times...and someday we won't have to part ways. But for now, I've got a cat in Austin to care for, an apartment to pay rent for, and a temp job to find. I want to be in Tulsa so badly.

I have barely been gone from her for 24 hours and I already want to go back. A part of me is still hoping she does decide to run away with me...not that it's the wisest life decision a person can make. Maybe if she just lasts until August I'll be able to move up there to an apartment and be with her for her last year in high school. I'm already going to be out of college for one semester, since I'm on academic dismissal...so maybe I should go ahead and take the whole year to just chill out and get my life together?
It seems like a good idea to me, but it'll involve quite a bit of work. At least I have until August to figure things out.

Well...after the bus departed 20 minutes late, I was off to Austin. First passing through Oklahoma City, then Dallas, first. The bus left late because some lady with 6 kids was apparently moving and had a shitload of stuff to load. Very annoying, and very crowded, but oh well. Once we got on the move things weren't so bad.

The one thing that worried me on the trip down was that my luggage would be lost or something. Somehow, I just couldn't trust that my suitcase would be automatically transferred buses at each stop. Fortunately, my worries were unfounded and my bag was waiting for me in the terminal.
My body was quite happy to be off such a cramped bus, but at least I had a whole two seats to myself for the last two hours. Maybe that's why I'd managed to fall asleep.

At first, I had planned to take the city bus home to my apartment, but then I figured I should at least give Will a call to see if he'd be all right with giving me a ride. After all, I was not at all familiar with the particular bus route I was set to take. Fortunately, though I'd woken him up with my phone call, he was indeed willing to give me a ride back. Yay!

So...I managed to stay awake long enough to unpack, back in my messy apartment room, before I realized, though I wanted to stay awake, that it was impossible. So I just kinda passed out at about 8am.

And so ends my trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hopefully I'll get to make many more such trips, and perhaps adventures to more interesting parts of the world.

For now...I'm going to rest my body for this day before going on the painful search for a job, or going about the painful process of cleaning my room. It's in sore need. Hopefully I can get a job in less than a week, because I sorely need to be making monies.