A little update on my life...

It’s been so long since I wrote on here. I really meant to diligently keep it up but 9 weeks into the semester, here I am, scrambling to gather my thoughts to get something down. Life is different, as it always is day to day, but especially from the summer. When I returned, I told myself that I wouldn’t let myself fall back into my old familiar habits, that I would get out more and live a little more than I had. Sadly, I haven’t. And I’m ok with that. I’ve come to realize that the person I was over the summer was a special edition of myself. I am not that person normally, although I have taken a few things from her and kept them around. I had fun this summer, there is absolutely no doubt about that. I did things I never would have done and met people who I hope to keep in touch with for years to come. I have a familiar place now in a foreign land that I can go back to with fond memories. It all feels like a dream. A really good, crazy, fun dream. I have to pinch myself sometimes to remind me that it actually happened. And when I look through pictures I smile and think ‘my god what was I thinking??’. I was totally carefree and I deserved it. It is the one time in my entire 22 years that I have fully let myself be free and have fun and act my own age. I’m a workaholic and always have been. I get bored if I don’t have enough on my plate. And my opinion of ‘enough’ is a lot of people’s idea of ‘way too much’.
So school is majorly underway and we are now, as I stated above, in the 9th week of the semester and it’s a Thursday, which means that this week is nearly over. I have to say that this is by far the busiest semester I have had, as far as a study schedule goes and even at that, I’m not doing as much studying I should be doing. I am mainly done with all of my classes for my major, save my final senior Campaign Management class, which is not as intensive as I thought it would be. But that makes room for the two history classes, one communications class and one anthropology class that I AM taking. Whew I’m getting my butt kicked. I’m almost glad I didn’t find an internship for the semester. I shudder to think how much sleep deprived I would be. And I don’t do well without my sleep. I’m a happy person but if I don’t sleep well, I start faking that smile and slowly get more and more stressed.
Anyways, per usual, I am getting off track and beginning to ramble. So what HAVE I been up to since I got back? Well, work, school, sleep. That is my life. I am working as much as I possibly can at Outback and working as hard (well not quite as hard) as I can to find a job for post grad, because, news flash, I graduate in less than 2 months. That’s right, ladies and gents. This girl is entering the working world very, very soon. Trying to save money (it’s harder than it sounds) and trying to get as good of grades as I can manage. I know it’s my last semester and most jobs don’t ask how you did in a class not pertaining to your career but I do want to finish on a good note. My classes this semester are very mentally challenging but it’s a good challenge. I’m reminded once again that if there were more that one could do with a history degree, besides teach, I would have been a History major and oh my life would have been so different. Probably still would have gone to Florence but under much different circumstances.
Another curious thing about my life right now is that I am finally starting to see the place that I live, and have lived for the last year, as ‘home.’ I have roommates who I get along with and enjoy spending time with, I have a routine and do things around the house. I feel like I’m actually growing up and becoming that young adult I have always heard about and imagined what life would be like to live like them. Well, I am. I’m not completely independent just yet, but that time is fast approaching. And I’m nearly ready for it. As I still have no idea where I’ll end up in the early months of the new year, I am hesitant to become completely comfortable. I’m excited for what is to come.
So, there is my little update. I am actually getting out tonight and going to a Tweetup networking social (a little more on that in a later post) with a friend. It will be good to get out. Until next time, ciao miei amice.