So Close to Being Done

Gday!
Sitting at home on a rainy, overcast Wednesday nutting out my final assessments. It's not a lot, really: an exam (plus two written pieces), a final report and a final essay. I've got the tingling anticipation when you can sense freedom but this is why I'm locked in my room with a cup of tea, water and nothing but my laptop. And the internet for distraction, I guess.
Classes have wrapped up, which is crazy. How quickly did that go! It's unfair. I'm getting settled, becoming chums with a bunch of people-- can see the opportunities for a great summer of camping, beers, music, campfires, the beach...and I have to leave. I curse the university for disallowing 12 month exchanges. To think of returning now, I feel so unready. Unprepared to go back to it all! To work, to school, to expectations (my own, no doubt) that I'll be involved in all that is work/school/environmental/co-op/drama. It's been a wonderful holiday, and it's definitely not over (more than two months to go), but this stage is wrapping up.

When I went to Montreal I was so nervous to be packing my bags and being on the road again. You just get settled so quickly and upending yourself is a big deal. So I guess we'll see how this next upending goes. I'm pretty excited, really. Apart from leaving people here, it's gonna mean that I've got 2 solid weeks in NYC to play and see theatre and buy nice clothes and hang out. Then I'm off to Tennessee with my father to walk the Smoky Mountains in the foothills of the Appalacians, and maybe the Blue Ridge Mountains (queue Fleet Foxes here). Then to Bonnaroo, a musical extravaganza with 80,000 people, and maybe catch the end of the Country Music Festival in Nashville. Then I plan to skim my way through the southern states of Louisiana and Texas before arriving in Austin where I plan to see my cousin for a bit. Then I'll fly to Cancun and begin my journey south through the Yucatan Peninsula, through Belize and Guatemala (and all that has to offer- including a lobster festival - 'party like a lobSTAR') and then for some diving at Utila, an island off the Honduran coastline. Let's see how it goes eh! I have the sneaking suspicion that imma run out of time.

And then home, and then I graduate at the end of the year, and then what? Who freakin knows. Being on the road will give me some time to mull it all out.
Much love to youse,
Hasta pronto. Better get back to study now, I guess.

PS listen to Patrick Watson- I saw him supporting Andrew Bird at the Beacon Theatre...this guy is gold, and gonna be huge very, very soon.

xoox G