Why, hello there!

I feel like a neglectful, distant relative of this blog... the kind you see only every couple of years and then goes on and on about how "big" you, how mature you've become, and how you've just grown up too fast... but I have spent the last hour reading Rachel's posts and wanted to post!

Rachel has done a beautiful job of keeping this up with thoughts, videos, and music that are wonderful pieces of her life that I have sadly been too removed from as well!

I actually started another blog not too long ago about my quest for graduate school (It's http://mlg0711.tumblr.com/ if anyone is interested!).

One of my favorite literary quotes, and I think a favorite of Rachel's, can pretty much describe my life right now:
"… The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket." Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

I have a lot of decisions and changes coming my way. It's exciting and sobering. It's a brand new life, one full of opportunities, freedom, and possibilities... yet a whole new level of expectations, responsibilities, and obligations. Everyone said graduating high school was going to be a big, wide abyss. I disagree. I think this post-Bac, super-focused, narrowing in on what my little under-five-words job title is going to be (out of the millions of possibilities upon entering college) seems like the true mysterious abyss... even though I have a direction and focus. I can't explain it. It's all quite neurotic, no?

Here is some Ray LaMontagne, my calming refuge!