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I don't want the real world! Make it go away!

Sorry it's been a while, but last week was insane.

Monday, I had a 7-page paper on the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was a ton of fun to write, but exhausting. Friday I had a major research project due in Music History that I was trying to squeeze time in between finishing my BFA senior thesis, which I turned in Wednesday. That was huge. That was my capstone project. 35 pages of the best poetry I could offer. It was surreal. I didn't feel like a poet, or a BFA candidate, or much of anything. At that point, I was so sleep-deprived, I just felt like a zombie.

After all that work, I felt like I deserved a mini-celebration. Stephanie and Gwen were out on the lawn blowing grass - making goofy noises, you know, and I brought my blanket out and joined them. We lay back and stared up at the sky between the leaves of the big tree in front of Dexter...such a pretty day...and then we went into the Barnett room for Mexican food and tie dyed T-shirts.

After class my friend Bryant called, we ended up going to Hatcher Garden, that's a beautiful little patch of woods maintained to offer Spartanburg residents a place to immerse in nature. Lots of flowers in bloom, and the foliage was so green...just gorgeous. I also like to go to the Cottonwood Trail on the Eastside...a lovely walk for a warm spring day, haven't been since last year though. Then we went to the mall, PetSmart, got rum-flavored ice cream at the Marble Slab, and then came back and watched Juno. I hadn't watched a movie in...how many weeks? Except for A Hard Day's Night, that was a load of fun but it was for class so it doesn't count.

It was just the little celebration I needed, but of course I had to pay for it with a late Music History project. Cause --> effect, and I don't really care anymore. It's senioritis and it's got me in its apathetic grip.

Thursday was Founder's Day. I love Founder's Day, we eat strawberries and cream, which was Dexter Edgar Converse's favorite snack. The keynote speaker was really awesome, a Converse alumna who has led a very interesting and creative life, she cycled across the US with a group of women, from coast to coast. And she also did this thing called Outward Bound, that's like a survival school, where you learn how to make it in the wilderness with nothing but a knife, a blanket, and a flint, or something like that. Way cool. She was talking about how you shouldn't just think of creativity in terms of the fine arts - how life itself is an art form, and I was like "yes! that's exactly right!"

Last night, I went with a bunch of friends to see Much Ado About Nothing at Wofford. I hadn't been to a show at Wofford. It was hilarious. The actors were just such hams, and it's one of Shakespeare's wittiest comedies to begin with. We had a blast.

So yeah it was a tough week, but I made a lot of good memories. That's what senior year is really about, for me. Every time I think about not coming back next year, and how this is the last time so many of my friends will be all together, it makes me want to drop all my school work and job search stuff and just spend every moment with my friends while we still can. But...I've got to pass my classes and I've got to pay my phone bill...so...back to work.