Being Home

Today marks one year since I returned to the States from my beautiful and adventurous excursions abroad. (Actually, it could technically have been yesterday...jet lag and time changes mess with your sense of time and date.) I thought it would be weird thinking of going home for the holidays and not having the exchange of culture and holiday airport rush that I experienced last year, but everything feels as if I didn't skip a beat. Cool, but it still feels like a dream...feels so long ago, yet just the other day. I was thinking about my studies with Lynn and how I feel I never took a semester away from her but that I grew as a musician so much while away that we could never have been doing the things we are without that time of study I took abroad. Look at me getting all mushy. Okay, I'm done.

(However, I would be lying if I said I didn't still have a tugging in my heart that yearns to return overseas...just have to figure out how I can swing that monetarily...I need some rich old sugar daddy who wants to pay for my travels. haha! Just kidding! I have always said I need an Aunt March, though.)

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I am happy that I have always had the privilege of being home for the holidays. Lucky...despite how much my family can irritate me...then, again, it wouldn't be family if they didn't drive you crazy! haha! :)


Semester grades were posted today. All A's and one B+. Yay! (The B+ I actually thought rather generous, as it was for my last general education course, and I did not put forth as much effort as I probably should have.) I'd say I'm doing pretty well...and I very much want to graduate with honors...one more semester, but at current, I'm looking at perhaps magna cum laude. That'd be awesome. I know it doesn't really mean a whole lot in the realm of things...just a sticker on your degree diploma and a few extra words in your personal biography, but it is the knowing of the accomplishment you have achieved. Sort of like the Fulbright...not only would it be sweet to have, but the honor of the title would be something extraordinary.

Also, that thing I said about my partial insomnia skidoodling when I'm on a break...I take that back, since I didn't fall asleep till at least 2:30am last night. Fun times. Brain, turn off!

Happy first day of Winter! :)