The Dreaded "I told you so"

So, I just got back from a little visit to Knoxville yesterday, which was partly school related and partly play visit. I loved being back, loved seeing people and realized that even though I'm glad that I don't still currently live in Knoxville, I do miss it and appreciate it more now than I did before. I got to hang out with my brother (note to self: NEVER stay in a house with 3-6 college guys... so GROSS!!!) which was fun since we aren't really phone siblings, and I ended up staying up super late on Monday night with all the boys just hanging out and playing foosball. I got up on Tuesday morning and walked across campus to the Bursars office... which had been moved to a building that i passed on the way to the old location... a location that is literally four blocks from where i was staying. BOOO! Got all my stuff from there, and then realized that I'm going to have to take the praxis... not happy about that. Went home, took a nap (i forgot how wonderful they are!), then met Tom for Happy Hour. And that was the first time of the the trip that I got the "I told you so" when i said that i was going back to school. I also got it later that night when i met up with Mat Heard and Denmark and Tom. Matt didn'te even have to say anything, I saw it in the look on his face that it was coming. "I don't even want to hear it" and he just started laughing at me. I also got the look from my other friend Matt Frease yesterday at lunch. I told him that the reason we didn't hang out until yesterday was because I couldn't handle anymore smartass comments or looks from anyone in one day after tuesday. It was funny, but ya know, maybe i should have stayed in school and just gotten my masters and everything in one long trip. But it was definatly time to leave knoxville last december, and i don't regret having to start over in a way. I know that I definatly want to teach now, where as before i was totally confused as to what the hell i was thinking and wanting. Sometime you have to fail to figure out what you really want, and to make you want it enough. Still though, I really think that phrase is over used!
Other things that happend is that i talked with Erin and Heather and Meredith and Claire... I miss my ultimate girls so much, and I miss playing with them more than I even knew! We all had this great connection... maybe sometime in the future! I also think that I've finally gotten to the point that the things that I can't control I've stoped caring about, or worrying about. If I can't change them, there is no reason to get upset about them. I've also learned who is important to me, and why... those are things i don't think that i knew before I moved here. But i know who is there for me, and who loves me enough to yell at my friends that are being stupid and mean to me (Sam!). And I now know that there are somethings that will never end a friendship, and that sometimes I don't know someone the way I thought that I did. Ok, enough of my life lessons.. :)