23 years.

Today I woke up feeling weird. I pondered this as I reached for my alarm, and I suddenly realized it was the feeling of being the awkward age of 23. What am I supposed to do with that?

And then I had my coffee, which put me one step closer to normalcy. I checked my e-mail, and I immediately panicked as I saw that I had 30 new messages. I had, of course, forgotten that it was my birthday, and that my friends were greeting me. Realizing what was going on, I felt much better!

This town has crazy traffic. What's going on here? I don't know. Cars. People. Stoplights. Parking garages. But hey, I made it to training, and there were donuts, and then they sang happy birthday to me! Then I learned lots of facts. Somehow I need to remember them and put them into action. Hm.

But now, another day more trained, more textbook-laden, and more acquainted with my fellow School Psych students, I seem to have pushed through my first wall of grad school anxiety and am momentarily on a new wave of excitement. Here's hoping that holds out for some long period of time.

 

Image only vaguely related to my thoughts today; took it last weekend and thought it was worth putting in a safe place.

I'm getting to the point that I'm running short on days before school starts. How did that happen? This summer kept appearing vast and open up until the end. The avoidance curve is now getting steeper than the approach curve (thanks, Personality Psych), and my excitement is being slightly deterred by nerves. But so goes life; I know that the next few weeks will be exciting, and I plan to enjoy it even if I'm simultaneously nervous. I'm a little worn out and stuffy this morning, though, so as much as possible, I'm going to take it easy.

And here's a brief photo update from a couple weeks ago. I attended Natalie and Robin's wedding in St. Louis, and it was classic and classy, and all-around beautiful.

Summer Snapshot

A quick shot from my family's float trip. Our campsite was right by the water, so in the evening after we floated, I could watch the fog rolling in over the water. Thanks to the weather behaving, it was a gorgeous couple days.