getting ready

The art geek pre-semester-reunion-and-gift-exchange is tonight. Things are pretty busy here at the apartment. Gray has some party punch “marrying” at some chicken marinating. I still have one gift to run out and get because I could not find it ANYWHERE yesterday.

School starts back Wednesday. I am looking forward to it. I’ve missed everyone during the break even though we have all talked, it is not the same.

How nice it is to have a group of people that you can let your guard down around. We have all bonded so much over these past two semesters … and sadly my best friend Gina will be going off to grad school after this. That is really going to hurt. But she’ll be at ECU, so that’s not too far.

I’ve been thinking about my plans after this, too. I’m not sure what I want to do. I know I want to get my master’s but I am not sure what in or where. I’ve been looking into government jobs and a program that they have to let you go to school while being a gov’t employee. After I finish my BA I could teach art on base while I get my master’s degree. That seems pretty interesting. They have the program open in Hawaii, Japan and Guam. That’s pretty far away – which makes it even more tempting.

Isn’t it odd that even though you are doing one task that there all of these thoughts going on that are totally unrelated? I’m getting ready for a party and I’m thinking about what I want to do in two years, four years, where kids might work into all of this … the mind is a dangerous and fascinating thing.

Back to cleaning and cooking. Talk amongst yourselves.