Current location:	my hot ass room
Current mood:	accomplished
Current music:	Colplay - Viva La Vida

Forever Life
I haven't written for leisure in a long, long, long, long, time.
College has made my writing so mechanical that I have
forgotten what it is like to write freely.

Anyway, life has changed. Big time. I can comfortably say
that I am slowly achieving my dreams. This past month has
been especially memorable for me.

I graduated college with enough honors, recognition, and
scholarships to 1. please my parents for the rest of their lives
and 2. to buy my way into doing what I want for once. What
pleased me more was the fact that , for once,  I am satisfied
with life and myself (and that in itself is priceless). I've
always been my worst critic.

My happiest moment was getting into Columbia for grad
school. Everyone called me stupid for riding all my hopes
and dreams on one application, but smart people do
dumb things. Luckily, I got in.

Thank God.

I've decided to defer my enrollment to Fall of 2009, and this
gives me one whole year to do whatever the fuck I want. I've
worked all my life for this moment and damn, I don't know
what to do. I'm a little saddened to not have to pull another
all-nighter for a final, lie to my parents that I'm "studying,"
write something significant like my senior thesis,  have late
dinners at Topps diner, bug my advisors,  buy another over-priced
text book, hold my boyfriend's hand while walking to class (gay) or
bitch to my other high-strung, over-achieving, friends about
how we make life too hard. At least not for a while.

Yes, I am a nerd to the core. Learning has always been my true
love, and true love never dies.

After accomplishing all that was on my list of undergraduate goals (dork),
I started a list (yes, I am a list person) of things I wanted to do
before grad school, and so far it looks like this:

- Read Penguin Classic's List of 100 Greatest Books
- Travel Europe
- Live on the west coast for a bit.
- Stop biting my nails
- get back down to my high school early college weight

The list is bound to grow.

Life is Beautiful.