Moving forward.

           It's a brand new year.  A year that is just teeming with undiscovered adventures and unrealized goals.  Only 2 days in!  I have so much to do this year, and I'm looking forward to every last experience.  But right now I feel restless.  Breaks are wonderful, but I need diversion.  And not just hanging out with friends or reading a good book, but classes and studies and work to do.  And go ahead and give me a hard poke for my hypocrisy, but I miss the dorms!  I may loath my homework sometimes, and especially last semester's course load, but I love being in school and learning.  There will always be classes that don't agree with you or projects that seem asinine or overwhelming, but they aren't the majority and they don't ruin the experience.  My attitude began to turn for the better this semester.  Youngstown really isn't such a bad place.  I don't ADORE Ohio, believe.  It's the weather.  Doesn't suit me one bit, but it can be dealt with and this winter has been pretty mild.  And more importantly, I have an idea of what I want to do with my future.  Not a perfectly outlined path, mind you, because let's face it, I make up my path as I go along, but a plan, a hope, a dream, a goal: whatever you want to call it.  I've got one.  And this semester, this year are all about moving forward toward my future.  I have to prepare for and take the GRE, visit grad schools, and then apply to grad schools and internships, wade ahead with my Russian language education, I'm in an opera and if all goes as planned, I'll be touring the UK with the Salem Youth Chorus.  I suppose I'm just anxious tonight to get going.  I don't take long to recover from an irritating semester, and this Spring Semester 2012 promises to be more up my alley.  (Please, God, don't let me regret that statement.)

I kind of feel like I'm just babbling.  But what else is a blog for right?  Me just putting down random thoughts in the hope that maybe somebody is actually interested.  Well, I'm going to do something new.  (Once I figure out how).  Following this blog post is going to be a post of pictures of the last year.  A celebration of 2011, if you will.  So for this post, I bid you adieu and pray for me as I attempt to figure out how to post pictures onto a blog!  One more exciting adventure for the year 2012, I have no doubt. (^_^)