the world keeps turning

Vacation is over, soon real life is gonna start. Well as real as a final semester of college can be. I've been back from DC for less than a week. It was a wonderful experience, I know for sure that DC i the city I want to live in. I want to work for a Senator and take the Metro into DC everyday. I've been applying for jobs like crazy-okay maybe not like crazy, but I've applied for roughly 10.

I'm scared that I won't find a job. Some of the people around me are having more luck than I am, however these same people are content to find a job here in Tacoma. I don't want to do that, I want to move away from Tacoma. I would prefer DC or somewhere else on the East Coast, but I could settle for Seattle.

Before my trip, I didn't want to graduate, I didn't want to be a part of the "adult" world. Now, upon my return, I can't wait to graduate. I want to be a part of the world I spent a week wandering through. I want to wear a power suit (or maybe a nice skirt suit) and be all important and walk past all the monuments.

Prepare for Take-off

T-minus 6 days until I leave for my trip to Washington DC. I have to admit I'm a little nervous. I'm really excited, but nervous. This is a big trip for me, not big in the sense of an exotic place, but this is my first trip alone all by myself. I get to make my schedule, where I want to go somewhere, what I want to see.

I'm scared arriving and departing, all the in between stuff is exciting. That might sound weird, but once I'm in DC I know what I want to do. When I arrive I'll be lost and alone-when I depart I will be lost. I have been having the most mixed emotions this week. I'm excited because on Sunday when I arrive I am going to haul my jet-lagged (hopefully not) butt to the Lincoln Memorial for an afternoon pre-inauguration event that consists of a concert, which I just learned might include Josh Groban (weeee.....I need an outfit that makes me look hot/keeps me warm/gets me noticed/etc.....) and President Obama and Vice President Biden (wow that sounds good to say) will be in attendance. So theoretically if luck is really on my side, I could meet Josh and the leader of our country in the same afternoon. And of course Josh will fall head over heels in love with me and we will get married and have beautiful babies...............okay so that is a stretch to say the least.

I am excited to see all the history. Once I figure out the transporation system in DC it will be easier, however-that is what I am worried about. I think/hope I'll figure it out relativly quickly but who knows.

I leave on Saturday and arrive in DC on Sunday at 7am-wish me luck!

Resolutions

Now that it's a new year, wow 2009 that seems weird, its time to make resolutions. However, I don't know if I have any. I have ones that work seem appropriate but I don't know if I could keep them or if I would want to. In some ways I feel like making resolutions is like saying "well I kind of fucked up last year so this year if I say these things out loud, I won't do it again." I don't ever want to live with regrets, granted I do have a few, but nothing that I feel really warrants repenting (which is kind of what a resolution is in a way).

I do have a few commitments and goals I want to achieve. I want to start exercising more (how cliche is that one) and since I'm graduating this year, I want to find a good job. I guess those could count as resolutions, however, I feel like calling them resolutions is setting myself up for failure. Because honestly, how many people keep their resolutions.

It feels weird that it's a new year. So much happened in my life last year. The month of January was amazing, wandering through the streets of London, finding our way on the Tube. When I got back to the US and campus, things got turned on its head a little. I got really sick and just had a really crappy semester, probably my worst all over semester-personally and academically. Around the end of April/beginning of May things began to get better and that momentum continued through the summer and into the present. I don't have too many complaints about this semester, there were some ups and there were some downs, but overall I think I will look back on this semester and be grateful it happened.

I'm entering this new year with no expectations of what it will bring, only that I want to make the most of every single day!