Mississippi girl

Hi from Natchez ya'll! Yep. I just pulled out the ya'll.

So Dad and I headed down here last night. We had dinner with Darian, my pastor friend from last summer, at Cotton Alley, a new restaurant in town. AWESOME seeing her. Food... eh. Dad and I had jambalaya - both agreed it wasn't jambalaya, cause it was in a cream sauce. But still yummy. And they've got reasonable prices on other stuff. So it's all good. Then we drove around Natchez for a bit before heading back to the hotel. I took him to the airport this morning, then had lunch at Pearl Street Pasta (Shrimp scampi - YUM!) and am now hanging out at the library, charging my ipod, computer, and trying to get my ebook reader to update. I'll be spending the afternoon running errands/hanging out around town before meeting up with Kaitlyn at 5 (can't wait to see her!), staying with her tonight, and moving into the apartment tomorrow. My roommates - the other 2 interns that are in from out of town, same ones from last summer - will be here tomorrow too. Busy already!

I've really started getting excited about being down here. As much as I complained about it last summer, I really do love this town. After all, it's hard to find more history and more antebellum homes than Natchez has. Yes, it's not a lively town. Mainly retirees and older. But I realized over the past year that, if I have a group of friends, even a small one, and something regular to do at nights, I don't NEED a big city with tons of stuff to do. Example - I'm from St. Louis, MUCH bigger than Natchez' 20,000 people. Yet I don't go out clubbing or partying or even just restaurants and stuff all the time. Instead, I spent the past year going to friend's houses, doing stuff with my church, hanging out, etc. So if I have some regular interaction/can get out of the apartment regularly, I really am OK with not having tons of options on stuff to do. I've already got friends down here, Darian and I are gonna try to start up ladies night at the Vue regularly (bar here that overlooks the Mississippi River) - we did that last summer, apparently sometime after i left it kinda fizzled out, but we're gonna try to start it again. Plus Darian teaches yoga and some friends I know go to that, so I'm gonna try that. Never done yoga before. Should be interesting. AND I found out Shreveport's only 3-4 hours away, which means my sister and Luke are just 4-5 hours away. So if I need to see my family, I can go up and visit them. And if I need a doggie fix, I can go see their sweet mutt, Ella, who LOVES her Aunt Katherine :-).

Yeah I think it's gonna be a good summer. I don't think I"ll be as homesick and surely not as lonely. Plus my background check is through already, so I don't have to deal with the pain of that. My big resolutions are just to get out of that apartment more. Walk around. See more houses. Travel around more. Just get away from the TV.

OH and I've realized I can get FACEBOOK ON MY PHONE!!!!! *cue Hallelujah chorus*. So I can put off the internet withdrawal a little. Oh did I forget to mention that? The apartment doesn't have internet. Yeah. BUT the library does, as does the coffee shop, and my church down here, Grace UMC, does and Darian said I can use the wifi there, so it should be good.

Plus I'm getting a new computer. *cue Ode to Joy*. I'm SO EXCITED about that! It'll be here Monday.

Still no news on the job front. I'm gonna continue searching this summer. Keep your fingers crossed.

One last thing. Remember I don't have internet down here, so I prob won't be updating the blog quite as much as I have. I'll try but we'll see what happens. I want to try and get away from my "I need internet!" fixes and enjoy Natchez, Mississippi, and Louisiana a little more. So while I may be checking facebook on my phone... ok I def will... if I"m not on here, that's what's up.

Miss you all already! But I think I'm gonna be fine down here. Catch you on the flip side!

Love you all,
Katherine