So, what's next?

So in about a week, I'll be on a plane with Jen heading back east. I'm looking forward to seeing my family, but I don't want to leave! I'm determined to come back and I will try my damnest to make it back here, if I can make it here, I can make it anywhere. I love the comfortable weather, the natural scenery, and my independent lifestyle. I've created a positive, productive situation for myself.

There will never be a better time to pick up and go. I'm young, curious, and have loads of energy to pour into the place. Not to mention the fact that I'm kidless and single- I may never again be this portable!

I've been on a straight educational path since I've learned to talk (I started at DePaul when I was 2 I think), and now I have a diploma and enough energy to circle the globe, and all the freedom in the world. Now is the time to do what I want to do and fulfill my wildest dreams. I'm in no rush to become boring. The twenties are the years to become unconventional and experimental. Trying things I may never have the chance to do again. When else in life will I have such freedom? If I wait till my senior citizen years the experience won't be as cool. There is nothing holding me back.

I feel lucky enough that I've been able to experience living in such different places and I want to keep doing that. Pittsburgh, Rochester, Washington DC, San Francisco...What's next? And honestly, I don't know. My life could change in an instant and I'm embracing that. It's finally hit me that I'm not going back to 185-D this fall and there will be no more parties at Chris', crazy theme parties at 315, thursdays at MacGregs, or Sunday nights with my girls. So sad, but change is good. College really is the best years of your life, I always shugged it off when adults told me that. But, here's to making the next few years just as memorable.