One Week Down...

...15 to go.

So school has started, and overall I am pretty happy with my classes. They are finally what I have been looking to take since I began grad school. What are they, one might ask? Intelligence in Foreign Policy, and Homeland Security. Related but not at the same time. Fascinating, I think. I have already done a bunch of reading, and so far I am loving it. One of my professors has already assigned 3 articles that he wrote, and while he may be a fabulous historian, he is not the best writer in the world. Still, the topic is interesting and I am enjoying my reading, showing what a nerd I am. I do not have any exams this semester, which is nice. I do have papers though. A lot of papers. As in, 9 of them. For two classes. And I am still unclear as to what I have to do for my internship in order to get credit. I'm not going to worry about that for now though.

My internship is supposed to be starting next week (fingers crossed), so that is also exciting. I am hoping everything falls into place easily. Murphy's law, it wont happen, but hey, I can dream.

I decided not to do a blog post on my time home mainly bc it is/was super boring. In sum, it was doctors appointments, hanging out with family, barely seeing friends, and a whole lot of nothing. Not to say that that wasn't welcome or needed. It just wasn't anything exciting.

While home, I did get to play wii, as Dano's mom got one for her birthday. I finally understand the draw, and when I have money and my own place, I am totally getting one. We played golf, tennis, baseball, and bowling. Such fun. My arm was way sore after though, haha. I think wii fit could be fun, but I never got to play that.

The best bonus of being home was that I got to see Dano a bunch of times. So yay for wii, and yay for seeing Dano. We have reached our ten year friendversary, and I can't wait for another 10 years of friendship. Though I also can't believe we have known each other that long. Thinking about how we met is such fun. First day of freshman year of high school. Thank you Weili, Trisha, and Jackie for being placed at our table, because without you, we never would have turned to each other for normalcy and friendship, haha.

The 7-11 on the corner is officially gone, and my heart is a bit broken. My body is saying thank you though, because really, who needs as many slurpees as I manage to drink, haha.

Im trying to plan a get together for some Villa people next week. It was supposed to be this week, but I am a sucker and agreed to work in the evening on Wednesday, so that won't work. Hopefully we can do it though. I miss enough of the people that I am willing to suffer through being with others, haha. I also have to give out the rest of our shirts. They say "I <3 Balze" in the "I <3 NY" style on the front. The Villa was Villa le Balze, pronounced the Italian way, not like "balls." We know it looks like "balls" though, which is why we made that our shirt. It is absolutely worth the money, though I doubt I will ever be caught dead out of the house in the shirt, haha.

Since I turned 24 this past month, I have decided I need to make a list of short term goals of things i want to accomplish before I turn 25. Then I want to put it away somewhere and look back in a year and see if I have accomplished any of them. I think it will be a god exercise and we shall see how it goes. Some of my goals include keeping in touch better with friends, and going after all opportunities I can. I'm not writing those opportunities here as I don't want to jinx them, but I am going to go for things I never thought I would. Even if I don't get into these jobs/programs, at least I will have the experience of trying.

In any case, this is a long and rambling entry catching myself up on life in the past couple of weeks. And I suppose that is all there really is to say.