been a while...

So my computer is finally back, alive, and usable...that was a close one. Happy to say my 2,300 pictures and 3,000 songs are safe and sound due to a hard drive search and rescue mission.


It's been an interesting past week or two...lots of thoughts about the present and the future. It seems that I'm on course to finish my undergrad work at the end of next summer and then preparing myself for a headfirst dive into graduate studies, which means I am potentially in my last year of undergraduate college. If all goes well, current connections will provide me with an almost guaranteed graduate assistant job, so my tuition will be payed for, and I still have my CDA job to provide housing if need be. Ironically I am studying the psychology of adolescence and adulthood during the summer while having a quarter-life crisis of sorts. I can't believe where I am in life, that I am so close to finishing many goals I created what seems to be so long ago. I had tossed over the idea of moving to California once done with my school. ..finding a job, a place to live, packing my bags, and heading across the continent. I know the idea won't be greeted well by my parents and friends, but I feel that I need to do something like that to grow in a way I won't otherwise. I am fine if I crash and burn and end up moving back, just as long as I tried. Going to London for two weeks this coming winter should be that experience on a smaller scale, but not enough.

Lenape is the biggest barometer of where I am. Being back here after being here two years ago as a freshman puts things in perspective. I am not who I was two years ago. I am back with so many experiences, laughs, tears, added responsibilities, new thoughts on life, and so much more. What will the next two years hold? the next five? Crazy.

On a lighter note, despite my 3 classes/2 jobs, I have lots of time to hang out and have a good time. Cell/IM me if you're going to be in the NP area.