Departures
Markku and Karkki left this morning. They’re waiting at the airport now; their plane will take off in an hour or so. Elexa just left for school. Marika’s still sleeping in Elexa’s room. She’ll be returning to Germany sometime this week. I’m leaving for Helsinki tonight.
So many departures. It seems meaningful to list them this way.
I’ve already packed (well, almost) and I have no idea what I’m going to do all day. My bus to Stockholm doesn’t leave until ten o’clock in the evening.
I don’t know when I’m coming back, or if I will—to stay, I mean. I’ll be coming here in early December with Taneli, I hope, and then again in January. I should be continuing university in the spring, especially if I stay in Finland, but somehow that seems so... boring. Aimlessness is a nice way to be.
Open options are gaps where your baby teeth have fallen out. You tongue them, the new teeth coming in hurt, but in a good way. Once they’re in, there are no more gaps. This is your new mouth. Fixed and set fast. Any changes from this point on are ones you don’t want. This is your new life.
And it’s only 8:47 in the morning.
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