AeroGarden? Maybe?

The other night I was about to walk back to my house but then I suddenly saw the campus shuttle in front of the building. I got on the shuttle, but the driver, this woman in her 50s, was chatting on her phone really loudly for a good six minutes or so, and I felt it would be rude to just leave, so I just sat there. She kept talking on her phone, so I didn't get the chance to tell her where I needed to go and she started driving in the completely wrong direction, and I didn't want to say anything. Eventually, we arrived somewhat near my house (maybe ten minutes away instead of fifteen), so I said I could just get off, but she insisted she'd drive me closer. But when she started driving, I realized we were going a super-long route again so in the meantime she asked me about my major and what I thought I'd do after graduation. Of course I had no idea what to say, so I blurted something out about "social work", the way I sometimes blurt out "teaching" or "being a carpenter" without a second thought. She then said that that used to be her field too, before she retired. She told me about how draining it was, and how it wasn't really rewarding too often, but maybe once in awhile it was. I realized it never even occurred to me she had a different career before driving the shuttle, and that was so ignorant of me. She told me a little more about her daughter and by the time she stopped talking, we passed my stop again. When I got off the shuttle, it had been almost twenty-odd minutes and I ended up maybe 500ft. from where I started, but I was pretty okay with it. Just another one of those moments.

I'm graduating pretty soon. I'm going to Argentina tomorrow. I've been having one of those graduation-crises... the whole what should I do, what gives life meaning deals. But then I signed on to LJ and I read this entry from a girl I don't actually know about how she started running, writing, reading, making pies and having tea dates, and it calmed me down so much.

Funny how that happens.