What the Hell!??!

Yes, that was the catch phrase of the day yesterday. I spent much of yesterday just hanging out in Austin with one of my good friends with whom I went to college with at UT. It was really cool just hanging out and catching up. Too bad the rest of our group was either busy with school, work, or out of state. It's been about 3 or 4 years since the last time we were all together at that school. The whole day was just about regressing, realizing we feel so old (at the ripe old age of 24), realizing we would have hated ourselves if the 24 year old us met the 20 year old us, catching up, and feeling like we're stuck in a rut. Just hanging out at all the old spots.

We decided to visit campus for a bit. I always made it a point to walk around campus whenever I'm back in Austin, but never really walked into the buildings. We decided to do that this time and do the whole tour of our respective areas of campus according to our majors. We even visited our old dorm...and boy did that change. Everytime we turned a corner, something new popped up and we were both saying, "what the hell!???" or "That wasn't there before." or "Where did the ... go??!"

It's weird though...you haven't talked to a friend in what seems like ages (ages being 4 years, whatever) but it's like no time had passed when we're sitting there talking at Mozart's. Nothing's really changed. We're still both the bunch of dorks we were when we were 17-21, but just that tad bit more mature.

Both of us were talking about feeling like we were stuck in a rut though. Is that supposed to be the general feeling at this point in life? The post-college, quasi-adulthood period? I don't know. All I can say to that is "What the hell?!?"