Life Update

I started this blog to give myself another means of dealing with the ever-present boredom in my life. With that being said, I guess I haven't gotten bored enough in the last month to actually have the energy to "blog" - but it probably has more to do with the fact that I can't really figure this whole thing out that I have been avoiding it.

Anywho... what better place than your blog to talk about the current goings-on in your life?! Let's see.... I'm helping one of my favorite professors with a research project she is doing. It will be pretty cool once we are all finished. I am really honored that she picked me to help her.

I am considering applying for some graduate schools this fall in hopes to make their spring deadlines and get going on furthering my education - and have some direction to my life. Now if I do decide to do this, I need to take the GRE here pretty quick. That is definitely not something that I am looking forward to! I hate standardized tests and when I graduated in May I pretty much lost every bit of information I had ever learned - mostly because I wasn't planning on going to Grad school. But, there really aren't many drawbacks to going. Education always comes in handy.

Grad school is probably my best option at the moment, even though I would love to just dive into the political arena, things just aren't seeming to work out for me in that area at the moment. And I don't know that I will figure out what I should/want to do for a long while. Which is really strange because I LOVE planning my future and trying to figure that sort of thing out. I planned out all of my college experiences two years ago and that helped.... so now I can't plan and it is driving me nuts! I'm a little anal when it comes to planning the future, but looks like that won't be happening. Good thing I can be okay with going with the flow (or lack of flow as the case would be at the moment).

I have been doing marginally decently in training for my marathon. I'm pretty scared because I HATED running up until two years ago when my dad was training for the St. George marathon. Well, I stopped running after about a month and hadn't since until I decided to sign up for the Marine Corps Marathon in DC. I was in DC last fall and was able to go to the finish line of the race - in hopes of finding a friend that was running, but that attempt failed miserably - and it really inspired me to want to run a marathon. I decided on the Marine Corp Marathon for the sole selfish reason that I wanted some sort of an excuse to go back to DC, since I had no idea when the next time would be. I'm up to 5.6 miles.... 26.2 should be cake, right?! Hopefully I can run 10 tomorrow. At least, that's what I'm planning on.

I'm kind of stuck in some random place right now and I really have no idea how to get myself out of it. It's a weird funk that I am definitely not used to. I am not completely satisfied with my life, yet I'm not really taking steps to change that. And I blame it on the fact that I have no idea what I want to do now or which direction to go. I'm waiting for some signs from the Heavens to tell me what to do - a lighting bolt would be nice. Too bad answers don't come in that form.

I'm gearing up for Wedding Season. At least ten people that I know are getting married between the end of July to the end of August. I'm super excited for all of them and cannot believe that I am old enough to be getting married. It's just crazy. Some days I get pretty jealous - ok really really jealous - and then I snap out of it and realize that my time will come. There is no need to rush. I still need to figure out what I'm doing. So now I'm able to sit back and think that "it'll happen when it happens." I don't think that was the tune I was singing three years ago... or even six months ago... or maybe even six weeks ago... ok six days ago ;) just kiddin.

Well, there's my life update. It's super exciting and eventful, I know. Maybe the next update will be a little more thrilling.