crunch time

two weeks left.

feels like about three weeks of work to do.

wonder how this is going to turn out.

In other news, I went to see my amazing sister in WV yesterday. I miss her a lot. I miss my family and my friends back home. I am ready to go home.

I've been making important life decisions, since one day I woke up and realized that grad school applications will be due unbelievably soon, and since time is moving unbelievably fast. I am pretty sure that I will blink and it will all the sudden be Christmas.

I have decided that I am not moving across the country until I am married unless crazy things happen. If that makes me weak, then whatever. I don't care about your opinion. I'm all for seeing my dreams come true and moving across the country to take that perfect job if the opportunity arises, but being near to people I love is part of that dream. It's so important to me to be working with good people and to have people to share my life with. Life is so much richer when you're sharing it with someone, and here close to my friends and family I can do that. If I'm a day's journey away from the people I love it is harder to communicate and much less fun. If/when I move far away I want to have someone to share it with. It's not an independence or incapability issue; I have proven to myself many times that I am capable of starting over in a new place and taking care of myself. It's a matter of my priorities, my desires, my dreams, and what I am convinced will be the happiest life for myself.

I love my life. I'm pretty excited about all that is to come. It's awesome to be here with so many choices and opportunities, and I mean awesome in the full sense of the word: bringing about awe, admiration, wonder, terror. Who would have guessed that I would end up here and now? It is intimidating and unbelievable and incredible. I can't wait to see how it all turns out.

And now...to fit three weeks worth of work into two. I can do this if I work at full potential. Here's to making the most of every moment.