Mississippi Bound

I'm headed to Oxford, Mississippi this week to find a place to live. And to show my mom where I'll be living. I'm happy for a break from work. I'm excited to see a place that I only briefly saw several months ago [in the dead of winter] on a super-stressful weekend. I'll be seeing it with new eyes this time because I know for sure it will be home. I'm borrowing a GPS [thank you, Jessica] because heaven knows I didn't inherit a sense of direction from my mother. I have finally reconciled myself to the idea of living alone my first year of graduate school. So, I'm searching for a one bedroom apartment. Up to now, the thought of living roommate-less depressed me. Something changed, and I decided that it might be nice to have a place to call my own for a while. It's a pretty long drive to Oxford, but just short enough to drive in one day. The perfect distance from home if you ask me. I keep telling my family to just imagine that I'm living in Lubbock. Honestly, I'm not quite sure about calling my future home state Mississippi. Hopefully I can keep my license plates?? Oxford, it's a wonderfully charming town. But Mississippi? You know all the jokes. Not most peoples' number one state. Hopefully it will surprise me, but if not, at least Memphis and Nashville aren't too far away! Anyways, I hope to come back with a place to live and a better sense of where I'll be calling home for the next several years.