Whirlwind Living

Things are kind of all a blur right now. I have so much I'm involved with, and even when it doesn't seem like it, I'm VERY busy. The thing is, I wouldn't have it any other way. For the first time ever, I feel like my life is focused around doing the things I love. And I wouldn't say that I'm enthralled with how things are going. I'm not jovial. Rather, I'm just very content. But in a way, this is how I'd rather have it. It seems like whenever things get so good that you're thaaaat happy, you quickly learn that they've been too good to be true. Contentedness seems to have a longer life-expectancy than exuberance. At least, I think so.

This week was homecoming week, which means each day was a dress up day. I gotta say, it was lots of fun. There are all sorts of senior traditions that come along with homecoming, and I've been dying to participate in some of them since I was a freshman, so I was really excited to finally have my chance. Obviously, then, I played along every day. And I've uploaded a picture to my Dailybooth each day of the week, if you're interested in taking a look. Tonight's the homecoming game and tomorrow's the dance, and you can guarantee that I'll be at those as well, taking pictures! I'm not going with a date to homecoming, but I sort of think it's better that way. At least for homecoming, you don't really neeeed a date, and it's always a helluva lot simpler when you don't have to coordinate everything with a partner. So I'm going to the dance with Mallery, Rodessa, and her boyfriend Tony. It's gonna be splendid. <3

I've been in school for nearly a month, and I'm still not entirely accustomed to the fact that this is my last year in high school. It's all still sort of foreign to me.

You can only imagine, then, how bewildered I was when I got a certain tidbit of news this afternoon. I ran out to check the mail, hoping to get a letter from my friend Teryn, and instead I found a letter to me from Winona State University, the one college I've applied to. It was small and thin, so naturally, I started to get a little bit worried. I mean, c'mon. I remember seeing Gilmore Girls years back, and when Rory got her acceptance letters, they were these massive packets. I can tell you that that's always been what I've expected. So naturally, Winona's letter alarmed me a little bit at first. I'd checked their admissions standards numerous times, and it looked like I was a shoe in for acceptance! This couldn't be a letter about my application.

Still, I tore open the letter, only to find that I'd been quite mistaken. It was indeed a reply to my application. And y'know what it said?

IT SAID THAT I'D BEEN ACCEPTED TO WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY! AHHH!

GUYS. GUYS. I'M GOING TO COLLEGE.

Yeah. So. Uh. Yeah. I'm massively excited. And I'm pretty sure I'm not even gonna bother applying to other schools, because I REALLY like Winona, and it offers everything I'm looking for in a school. So honestly, I'd rather focus on getting ready for my freshman year than wasting my time looking at schools I won't end up attending.

But all the sudden, I've graduated, y'know? As quickly as I've had to grasp the fact that I'm a senior in high school, I've been thrown into another situation, told to grasp the fact that I'm a freshman in college. It's bewildering. And amazing. And. OH mannn. Okay. I'm definitely not merely content when I think about going to college in nine months. I'm fucking thrilled.

This year is gonna be incredible. <3