I have had a week of glorious freedom, and it's time for me to chill out, settle down, and deal with the little leftover shreds of life that I have neglected since approximately december.
today is beautiful and I'm reading (and thoroughly enjoying) kathryn stockett's the help, so this is going to be short and sweet. you can't expect more brilliance or commitment from my sporadic posts. sic transit gloria blog-posti. duh.
and probably it won't be short, actually, either. but it will be a list, which is at least much shorter than a wordy post. wordy lists are my specialty.
updates, not in order of importance, with the most important last:
#1. waaaaay back in february, I got a job!! it made this semester much more difficult, but I love this place and the semester could have gone much worse (see #3). karen is a fantastic boss, and I am truly loving serving free coffee and reading books. every girl's dream, what?
#2. I got a $2,000 scholarship through the art institute.
yeah. I know: wow. the first money I've received by merit. I was blown away.
#3. my meteorology class almost killed me this semester. it was really hard (in weird ways), and I struggled. on top of trying to get into the graphic design program and working at karen's, it was really stressful and I cried frequently. this was a very, very hard winter for me -- but it's done! it's done!! -- and I seriously considered dropping the class. but I decided to push through.
and then I got a B. this was crushing, not just because of the heart and soul of me I'd poured into my work, but I really wanted to keep a 4.0 GPA if at all possible. apparently not possible, right?
well, today when my professor uploaded the official, final grades, she weighted some of the assignments, incidentally ones I had done well on.
I actually got an A.
#4. my graphic design teacher (leslie friesen) offered an internship opportunity to me usually only available to upperclassmen. she asked three students from our class if they wanted one of the two positions, and we had to apply if we were interested. two of us responded, but we were in competition with seven others from our to-be-boss brian faust's web design class. my interview went really, really badly.
somehow, I got the position. it's paid, and starts mid-may.
#5. I have plane tickets for my trip to kelsey's wedding. YAY! I'm so excited for her!! (and for me, too...)
#6. I bought a dress, for the wedding, that should also be arriving mid-may. it's handmade, and it's from italy. and it will have a pocket. embarras de richesse.
#7. we're going to kitty hawk for a little relaxing beach fix this coming week; I cannot wait.
and --
#8. I was accepted into the graphic design program.
this has been the best first week of summer ever. possibly of my life. I am unutterably grateful to God for all this abundance of mercy that has suddenly broken over my head -- innumerable blessings that came in such dreaded clouds. I don't know what His purpose was, and I definitely don't know what it is to be in the future, but I have renewed hope and confidence.
this is going to be a thrilling summer. I'm trying new things and really exploring who I am. those old mists are rising: the world lies spread before me and -- it has been an adventure already!
