sleepless, but not in seattle (or the pnw)

The semester is so close to being done that I feel it (you know, that lazy, "I have no reason to do this assignment" feeling)...but just far enough away that I can't give up yet. My roommate who is graduating this year (as I should be-changing majors will do that to a person), is dreading graduation. According to Ash, these are the last weeks of her youth and she is worried about the future and the increasing adult responsibilities. I get what she's feeling, but maybe because my graduation's a whole year away, I have this idea that graduating would be a huge weight gone off my back. Come to think of it, I've been in school every year since kindergarten, so I don't know anything else. No more school sounds fantastically freeing, but who knows, maybe I'll be feeling apprehensive at this time next year too. Unfortunately for me, even graduating won't get me away from academia. My degree in education will help ensure that I remain school-bound for a very long time...kind of humorous in a way.

Anyway, life has been business as usual with plenty of research, writing, and work happening. I wrote a 13 page paper in just a few hours the other night which was amazing for me because I'm about the slowest writer on the face of the planet. I so envy those people who can whip out a two-pager in a half hour. It can take me up to an hour a page (double spaced) to write something, which is incredibly frustrating. I like to blame my turtle-ish writing habits on perfectionist tendencies, but I don't really think that's truthful, I think I'm just a slow writer.

Changing the subject, along with a trip home coming into sight in the near future, I am now planning on taking a trip to Ohio to see relatives later in the summer. My family has been planning the trip for about a year, but I decided I was going to stay home and work, however, with the job market as it is at home (a 12.5 percent jobless rate and growing everyday due to several major store closings) and knowing how hard it was to find work last summer (50 applications, 2 call-backs and subsequently canceled interviews-I gardened for friends to stay afloat), I decided last week that I am going to go on the trip-job or no. I have never met my family in Ohio and this kind of seems like the last opportunity to meet them before I'm out of my parent's house. Also, my grandparents are celebrating their 50th anniversary back there, and I'm not too keen on missing that. Buckeyes here I come. Ash (my roommate) is coincidentally from Ohio, so there's a chance that I will be able to visit her while I'm there as well.

Well, it is now 4:45 am and I'm not getting a whole lot done sitting here on blogger, so I'm going to go try to do something productive (besides sleep-there is no time).

Goodmorning-

Me.