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5 More Months, and a recap right quick

Alright, so I graduate from Lawrence in 5 months and cross through into the liminal threshold of “adult life” part 2 (or 1?), only to enter another.

Here’s the thing on that.  I’m just trying to invoke my freshman attitude, minus the confusion and drama.  AKA I’m trying to party and dance, make out with all of my friends and just hoe around in general—-to be perfectly overly frank about the sitch; I’m going to not give a fuck.

As for the recap, I went from turbo-time Angie-is-amazing-at-organization-and-rocking-four-hard-classes to taking 2 sweeet art classes and Islam where its like Angie-is-amazing-at-chillin-and-relaxin (and checking her schedule being like…wait, do I reeeeally have no homework?).

On the home break front, I essentially kuddled with the K, got crunk with the C Pray, spent time with lovely people, meditated my ass off only to realize (dont think me to be cocky, alright?  Im just correct…) that I’ve got a large amount of shit figured out about how to surf life, how to surf my mind, and how I should treat myself and others as humans and individuals.  In sum, that retreat was only reaffirming, I felt more like myself afterwards, the peaceful its-easy-to-love-you because I’m not stressed-by-academia me.

And so my freshman invocation thus far?  Hoein: slight.  A respectable amount.  Procrastination: I didnt know I still had it in me.  Going to the VR when I should have been going to bed: obviously forming good habits.

Last day, Fall term, Senior

Dats right.  Tomorrow I have a photo critique on my 8 rolls of sidewalks, a health psychology exam, turning in a research paper about yoga and anxiety reduction, and a take home final for early christianity.

Then: home the next day.  For a month plus.  YAYYYY!  Longer than I’ve been home in a year and a half.  And I will be with Courtney, and Kuddles, and Buhba.  Not to mention, Nov 25-Dec 6th I’m doing an intensive Vipassanna meditation retreat.  Will be pretty much like nothing I’ve experienced before.

Furthermore, I am now 22.  22.  I gotta admit, for some reason I am pleased with this number, its kinda sexy.  22 is gonna be a pretty goddamn different kind of year.

“Taking risks is no easy thing, but when we come to the end of it all, shall we regret that we stayed too much in our comfort zone?”

I already know I wont. Life is not the equivalent of a stone that sits in one spot for eternity, occasionally sliding down a couple inches due to erosion; life is fluid flowing river and moves in a constant forward motion, you have to ride with it, IN it, no matter what you may or may not collide with along the way.