Sunday summary: Life. No, really.

This semester has been absolutely insane for me. I’ve taken two of the hardest and most time-consuming classes in my major, been plowing through the minor I picked up just last semester and had to take an upper-level Poli Sci class to fulfill a random requirement. I have been stressed to the point of tears and nausea, but it’s finally ending. Tuesday is my last day for classes and next Monday I move back home for the summer!

Over the last three months I’ve learned a few things about myself. Mostly they involve the level of work and stress I am able to tolerate. But I did learn that I am not alone in those thoughts. There are plenty other of my classmates that suffered alongside me in silence and recently voiced their own troubles they’d been slogging through. I no longer feel so much like a complete failure that I can’t handle four little classes… sheesh.

I also have been missing my friend Mike insanely. I think about him nearly every day but haven’t had much time at all to write. I mean, I could be writing now. But I’m not. That’s going to be goal one once I am home for good.

Goal two is to start my internship! I am going to be interning in the marketing department of the North Carolina Museum of Art, which is, of course, my home away from home. I am so beyond excited that I got the job. I predict most of my blogs will be about work. Hooray!

Goal three is going to be reading and writing. I’m only two or so chapters away from the end of The Two Towers, next up is, naturally, The Return of the King. I might tackle The Silmarillion after that. I’ve been stealing my dad’s books and reading them while I’ve been home on break, but that is acceptable because he has chewed through about half of my Discworld books. Ah, the father-daughter geekery. It is too precious. I am also vowing to keep up with the blog better and to, maybe, make some headway on the various story or novel ideas I have had in the last years.

Goal four is to improve my photography skills and take more pictures. Seems simple.

Goal five is to relax a little. And go to the beach.

What do you think? What are your goals for the summer, if you have a summer? I realize this is likely the last summer I will spend relatively carefree, so I plan on milking it. Comments are appreciated!

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