Sooo, I figured since I can't really celebrate on Facebook (since many of my friends have yet to finish with exams) I would update here. I AM DONE with my first year at St Andrews. Which is insane. I fly home a week from tomorrow, which is just... wrong. But I am excited to get back to home none the less. I am actually looking FORWARD to summer weather and wearing short sleeves. Clearly, I've been in Scotland for too long.

In other news, there was this musical group playing Native American music in FULL COSTUME by the church on South Street today. I could not help but grin to myself, because that in Scotland is something I'd NEVER thought I'd see. It's the little things in life.

So, break was really good! It was short, but I got to see mostly everyone I wanted to see (though not enough ). Now, I am back in Scotland, and in the midst of exams. I think I kind screwed up the first English essay bigtime... BUT I feel like I remember how to (kinda) do timed essays now. SO. The rest of the exams should turn out alright. THEN, starting this Saturday afternoon, I have THREE beautiful weeks of nothing to enjoy! Huzzaaah. I'm hoping to post here again. We'll see how long my art motivation hangs around. And whether I will want to bother to upload things.

Leaving to go home TOMORROW (though I don't fly out of the UK til Saturday). Holy CRAP! I can't wait to see you all.

Does anyone else get the feeling everything is going to change so much in the next few months that the world is just going to collapse and cease to be?

... Cause I do.

So, school's out. I'm done with Goucher for good, and possibly off to Scotland next year. I am going to make myself happy from here on out (at least most of the time) even if it kills me. I have to, because negativity lost its appeal a while ago, and pessimism is on the way out. Life is too damn short for this (a year since I graduated from High School. Ridiculous.).

In other news, two friends and I leave on Monday for a cross country road trip. We are taking a somewhat Southern route through VA (Skyline drive, plus Luray Caverns), North Carolina (Asheville), Tennessee (staying with Mamaw and hopefully seeing Graceland and of course the Smokies), Kentucky (Mammoth Cave), Arkansas (Hot Spring National Park), Oklahoma (Umm... We don't really know what we are doing here), New Mexico (Santa Fe) and finally Colorado (Sand Dunes and Denver). I fly back on Monday the 4th.

If you note me your address, I will totally send you a tacky or scenic post card, depending on your personality.