Funny story. I'm in D.C. about five days ago I had every intention of being back in Springfield from Christmas with my grandparents in St. Louis by this point. But the fates decreed something else for me. My dad called about two days before Christmas, told me he'd booked me a flight for the day after Christmas, and now here I am in Manassass, VA waiting for my daddy to come home from work at the Hoover Building so that we can go out to eat. It's really weird, but I'm having a blast. I'm also soaked from walking across the entire Mall in the rain. I'll try to come up to the big Indep, MO at some point this break, if my schedule permits, and if the boy didn't crash my car. (I let him drive it back to Springfield from St. Louis, so that I could go to the airport.) I should probably see if I still have a car.

Well, it's time for some well-deserved family game time. I'll write more at a later date.

So, today is my last day of classes and I have to say I'm pretty excited about it. Only three 7-10 page papers and about 5 tests lay between me and freedom. Of course I only have one week to accomplish all of this, so I'm starting to freak out. Oh well, I'll get through it. This semester's been really tough, so I'm not expecting too much from it. I really could be doing something useful right now. But I don't feel like it. Last night I went to a friend's house because he got these awesome Dance Dance Revolution mats and wanted to try them out, sadly a couple of weeks ago I badly sprained my ankle while TP-ing a house, so DDR was not the smartest idea. I may have screwed up my ankle even more. Oh well. I'll just be permanently known as "The Gimp." Joy.

So, I'm going to St. Louis for Christmas. I may or may not come spend a few days in Independence afterwards. It kind of depends on whether or not this friend keeps his promise to drive with me to St. Louis. If he does, then I have to make sure he's home by the day after Christmas, if he doesn't then I am free to come to Indep. as soon as I want. Yay. We'll see. I just really don't want to have to drive for long periods of time alone on Christmas, so I want someone with me. If I'm alone I'll get depressed and sad thinking about my family and how they're far away. But I am determined to have a good Christmas anyway. And anything has to beat the starvation of Boxing Day last year...ah, good times.

Well, I'm going to go to class now and pretend I did the reading assignment. We're meant to have read Whitman by today. I'll just randomly shout, "Oh captain, my captain!" and I should be good, right?

The Passing of an Era...

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So, my grandma moved Thanksgiving forward so that my family can attend, thus making it impossible for me to attend, so now that all hope of a family Thanksgiving is gone, I have decided to accompany a friend to Georgia and Nashville for the duration of my Thanksgiving Break. Funny thing is she's going to visit a bunch of her hispanic friends, so it will be three solid days of Spanish, now Lindsey can attest to this, I don't speak Spanish, but it should make things interesting, maybe I'll learn really really fast.

On a lighter note...only 14 days of class left until finals...then three days of finals and the semester from hell will be OVER!!!! Hooray! Next semester had better be a heck of a alot better.