04232008My next month (and a half) is going to be interesting.
Here's the skinny:
Finish classes, take last tests, presentations
Take finals
'Graduate'! on Friday
Try to celebrate in one night
Drive back to North Texas on Saturday
Fly to Hong Kong on Sunday!
Come back two weeks later and get back to ATX
Celebrate my birthday with Ladytron!
Also, I might be going up to Dallas for my nephew John's first birthday party on the third. Hurray big baby! We bought him a threadless-tee and velcro-vans. He'll be styling.
04162008Liquid liner really does reduce smudginess.
The internet world is so big, yet so small.
As much as I love ATX, I think I'm ready to leave it now. (Well, that didn't take very long.) There is a lot of old news here and I have a tendency to want to start things new. Whether or not that actually happens.
I'm over it! everything.
04152008AK is back in ATX.
I'm registered for my final classes here at UT.
I need to either cover my entire body in bug repellant or hydrocortisone. Or both!
I've been busy with school and work and visiting friends. Now is the time when school gets hectic and all I want to do is hangggg.
Two bruises and fifteen bug-bites, let's make the best of the next few weeks.
04082008I'm reading a book that I didn't own (and travel with) the last time I visited Hong Kong, but absolutely has the scent of Hong Kong.
I mentioned to my mother that I would like to, if time and money permits, take a trip with her up to Portland to visit a very good friend (and mother figure) of hers and then drive up to Seattle. Time and money permitting, she sounded completely up for it. I think she's even excited to have me see the Northwest; she's been wanting us all to travel up there for so many years, but having a decently sized family makes it nearly impossible. I hope this works out!
04052008Finally, with fifty pages to go, I sat myself outside of Mezes in the shade, because it's lovely outside, and finished the book. I felt all the emotions I was supposed to as if I were one of the characters, but I'm not sure what it was on my walk back home. A mix of the final chapters of the book, the remains of the peppers from my sandwich in my mouth, the thought of going home with weather so lovely, the realization of loneliness and a side of depression or the increasing reaction to allergies, pushed me to the edge of almost tearing. Just the monthly breakdown.
Now I want to start another book and forget all about my necessary duties.
03312008HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICOLE!
So, I've been off to a ridiculously slow start at getting school work done this evening. You know, it's hard between napping and YouTubing CantoPop singers from the early nineties and watching the uploaded
Man Factory videos. Awesome, Natasha.
My bites are less itchy now but I'm probably going to make significantly lower grades for the rest of the semester because of my growing case of senioritis (it exists).
03292008There's nothing like having to repierce your own ears.
There's nothing like listening to songs from your pubescent years.
There's nothing like aching to constantly scratch those insect bites.
There's nothing like realizing the countdown starts now.
Well, maybe the countdown started once anything ever began, but when I picked up my graduation announcements today, I realized that in about two months, I'm going to walk across the stage and graduate in front of family and in three months after that, I will actually have graduated. Part of me feels like I am lying on my announcements that say May 2008. I'm not ready to be done, to not be schooling, to not be living in Austin. I'm not done, and knowing me, it's going to take a lot to live out these last five months here to their fullest.
I'm doing the best I can.
Without getting entirely eaten by the bugs that share this apartment with me.
