Pseudo-Nostalgia

This morning I stopped at QuikTrip to fill up the Xterra with gas. At the time I didn’t think anything about it, but looking back, that will be the last time I will ever have to fill it up.

This is such a relief, that car is such a gas guzzler. My Civic is so much more fuel efficient. I am so thankful that I will not be spending a fortune on gas anymore.

It seems like the last time that I would fill the Xterra up with gas would have registered as a more significant of an event than it did. It was, however, just another mindless task of the morning: the gas gauge was a quarter full, I stopped at the QT on Prescient on my way to school. It is such a habit. I wished that I had stopped and thought about it a little more at the time.

By this time next week, Katie will have the Xterra and will be responsible for filling it up. If I remember correctly, she is taking me home on Wednesday, so she can have it through the rest of the school year so that she can move out.

I will have three days of finals where I will have to park in locations where I will not be ticketed. It’ll be worth it.

Part of me is feeling nostalgia: the Xterra has been such a big part of my life this school year, it should be a bigger deal that I am about to say goodbye to it. Another part of me cannot wait and it has been too long a wait.