It's The Final Countdown! & You're Doing What?!

Cue the music, I've started my last two quarters of undergraduate. I am so fanfrickentastically excited. School has become tedious to me. I'm taking super heavy loads both quarters, which will probably end up being to my benefit since I'll be too busy to be a slacker. Plus, I've decided that 19 credit hours just isn't enough; I've joined the Walla Walla Wolves basketball team. Yay!

Actually, so far that has been a big positive for me. Not only does it give me 2 solid hours of exercise every night, but it is also a way for me to keep connected. I find myself too easily doing nothing on the weekends and could quickly become the social recluse. Unfortunately though, it is two hours of practice, from 8:30-10:30 PM, which makes my Mondays and Tuesdays especially long. Also, I won't have a free weekend from the end of October until Christmas break.

The question I most often get these days is, "So, what's the plan after graduation?" And I reply, "Great question!" Truth is, I don't really know where I want to end up. I've spent three summers in the Adventist Health system - two at Florida Hospital, and then this most recent summer at Ukiah Valley Medical Center. While I've enjoyed all my summers, I really wonder if that is something I would find fulfilling enough to make a career out of. So in the meantime, until I figure out life, I've decided to go back to....Italia!

I've regretted how much of the language I've lost recently, and I really wanted to go back for another year while I still had the opportunity, i.e. no boyfriend, marriage, kids, etc. I will work at the school that I attended four years ago, Villa Aurora. This is both liberating and somewhat scary. Over the past summer, I got very adapt at doing things for/by myself. I look forward to traveling by myself, but after watching movies like "Taken" it gives me pause. Either way though, I figure this gives all my family an excuse to come to Italy and have a free fluent tour guide take them around. I like having excitement for the future.

Pace Fuori,
A

3 up 3 down

I'm on a bunch of intramural teams here, and this quarter is softball and volleyball. That is awesome because they are two of my favorite sports, but also bad because they are both hard on my already bad shoulder. I'm on a heavy regimen of ibuprofen and ice 3 times a day.

I have a competitive nature and I've felt kind of stuck in softball the past couple of years because I feel like I'm wasted at catcher, just throwing the ball back to the pitcher (there is no base stealing in slow-pitch intramurals.)I had the chance to play second for a short while at our game yesterday and it was so much fun, even though the ball never came to me to field.

Because I am so competitive, I get cranky when I don't think I'm being dealt with fairly - and I've kind of felt that way in softball. I feel sometimes like our captain has already made up his mind on who plays what, and I don't really have a chance to change his mind. I'm also sensitive to his trying to keep everyone happy.

My goal for this quarter is just to have fun playing the game, even if it just means throwing the ball back to the pitcher over and over. I do wish our team wasn't so competitive at times, but I think it would drive me crazier if it was the other way around.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams

Be My Only

While watching Ugly Betty, I heard the most beautiful song and spent the next hour trying to find it. I could only find it posted online, but no ability to buy the song or find lyrics. I've listened to it at least 30 times in the past few days and I've posted the lyrics for anyone that wants them. (I wrote them just listening to the song over and over.)
Here are two links to listen to the song:

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/fmradioproject
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDC2Eu3DSF4

“Be My Only”
FM Radio (Schuyler Fisk & Tim Myers)

I can tell by the way you look at me, you need to be mine
We could sit, watch the stars all night ‘till they disappear into the sky
I’m yours, and I know that you’re mine
You’re worth waiting for, you’re worth waiting for

Be my only, be my only, be my only
Your hand in mine, I swear love speeds up time
And when the southern skies like a lullaby
Wasn’t hard to fall,
Your love’s a wrecking ball

Watch your hands move along my face, they trace all the lines I’ve lived
It isn’t hard to love your scars ‘cause that’s everywhere you’ve been
I’m yours, and I know that you’re mine
You’re worth waiting for, you’re worth waiting for

Be my only, be my only, be my only
Your hand in mine, I swear love speeds up time
And when the southern skies, like a lullaby
You’re tearing down my walls,
Your love’s a wrecking ball

You’re the one I’ll compare all the others to
Like sunny weather
You’re the one that I’ll always come back to
Forever

Be my only, be my only, be my only
Your hand in mine, I swear love speeds up time
And when those southern skies, like a lullaby
Goodbye, take it all
Your love’s a wrecking ball.


This will be played at my wedding, guaranteed.

Looking forward to Seattle!

It's going to be epic!

Thursday Mornings

Every Thursday morning, Kelsey and I used to go to Starbucks at 6:00-6:30 a.m. and just talk about life for a couple of hours. Sometimes, the we'd be hanging out the night before and lament, "now we're not going to have anything to talk about tomorrow morning!"

This year we live together, so we've only gone for coffee once. And yes, I see her a lot more, but I still miss that weekly coffee. It was time set aside for just our friendship. 

Kelsey graduates this June, and it is going to be a very sad. I'm avoiding dealing with it and keep on trying to convince her that she should stick around for just one more year (I only have one left).

These were taken last spring at one of our coffee sessions. Here's to one more cup.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school, but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything at all.
-Muhammad Ali

sleep.

it eludes me. i have a list a mile long to do tomorrow, and then all the other things that I should get done. i really should get up at 6 a.m. to work on homework. sometimes it seems there aren't enough hours in the day, and then other times I squander them horribly. every once in a while, i lose hope, the purpose of the career path i've chosen (which is in no way set in stone), or even my major (with only 2 quarters to go). i want to go back to italy sooooo badly, yet feel daunted at going back for a whole year knowing no one and being a single girl. i hate the things that overtake my mind when i'm supposed to be sleeping.

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

The Alchemist (Paolo Coelho)