Not much going on here...

I have a feeling that the bulk of this week is going to be a bit boring, and mostly spent in class, with my nose in a book, or either pen in hand or typing at a keyboard working on my papers. They are due Tuesday, but we don't have computer access on the weekends, so I have just a few chances to really type between now and then, and I can't just sit down in front of the computer and write it then, because there are so few computers available for everyone and that wouldn't be fair. Anyway, that's what I'm here to do, learn about Ireland and society and stuff, so I'm not really upset that I won't be partying it up at the pubs this week. Next week we just have our assessments, which shouldn't be bad, and a normal class schedule and PACKING. I will make sure to have a couple more nights of drunken debauchery then, but not until these essays are finished.

I've also started to think about this coming fall semester and I've gotta say that after these short weeks as a full-time student with no job, that I'd be a damn good college student, possibly even getting straight A's if I wasn't working. I love just going to school and reading and studying, hell, even research is fun when that is all you have to worry about. As a 24 year old undergrad, I don't regret my decisions to work full time while school took a backseat, but I do wonder what my life would have been like had I taken the more traditional path of the 4 year student.

There's nothing you can do about your past, and I'm not crying over any of it. I feel like trying, though, this (hopefully!) last semester to do really well and not procrastinate and settle for half-ass work at school. I always say stuff like that, but I think the reality that this is my last chance to be proud of my own hard work (cheesy, yes) has hit me, and I don't want to be ashamed of my 6 and a half year trek towards my bachelors.

And I REALLY don't want the twins to graduate a semester before me. If that isn't motivation, then I don't know what is! Nothing like a little sibling rivalry to get you moving. It's bad enough that their graduation ceremony is two days before mine this December! Ha!