Yep, I'm so over this semester, it's insane. It's sort of like "senioritis" but just for the semester. The real thing behind this is that I'm basically done with everything in all of my classes, but I still have to go to class and take finals before I can go home. The problem is I have a presentation tomorrow, and then my finals. Other than that I'm completely done with all my other presentations and papers, so there's absolutely nothing to do. Literally. I'm sitting in my room having already made flash cards for my psychology final that's a week from today, and now I literally have nothing to do. It's to early for me to study for my other final because I won't retain anything so I'm here with my laptop.

It's lucky for me I got the best birthday present ever. My parents gave me Band of Brothers on DVD! I've wanted it for the past year and a half, and it's the only thing I would put on my Christmas list. So pretty much, I'm sitting here on DA while watching Band of Brothers. I'm completely obsessed. I've seen the series at least 6 times, I've read the book, and have done research on it too. I'm a bit of a crazy WWII Buff and so this is pretty much the most interesting thing in the world to me.

Anyway, aside from that I just really want to go home. I'm leaving in 8 days, which right now seems like forever since I'll have nothing to do. I don't even need to start packing to keep me busy because I'm getting picked up in the evening on the 9th and I'll have that whole day to get stuff together. If I do it early, I'll have nothing to do and all my stuff will be put away.

I'm also feeling antisocial. That's super difficult to deal with when you live in a dorm. Everyone in here has this uncanny ability to be social ALL THE TIME. It gets old really fast. I've come to realize that I value the time I get to spend by myself a lot. The nice thing is that my room mate (and best friend coincidentally) is the same way. So, we've been renting seasons of House on DVD and watching them every night in our room, ignoring the outside world. It's really nice. I've even started ignoring invites to dinner every now and then, getting something and bringing it back to my room instead. I think what's really causing this antisocial behavior and my desire to go home is the need for personal space again. I really miss having a room to myself, a place where no one will bother me at all, a place where it's super quiet all the time. My room mate is going home for the weekend this weekend, so I'll have to room to myself. I think that it'll be nice, and it might be the dose of solitude I've been needing.

Well, that was a nice long rant...I guess I should talk about my art stuff, haha. Well, I've been really caught up with school right now, there were all those projects and papers, so there hasn't been extra free time for me to do any art. Any free time I get I use to relax. I've also been doing some knitting, so that's taken a lot of time. I'm making scarves for a few people, like my grandma, so they're kind of top priority right now as they need to be done before the holiday. The good news is that as soon as this semester ENDS, I'll have a whole month off before spring semester starts. That means a lot of free time for photography since I'll have no homework or anything over the break (Oh the joy of completely new classes!). So, you can expect some more art around mid-December. Oh and happy December by the way.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Peace,

Natalee

So, as the title clearly states, I had an explosion of deviations to upload. Pretty much, I got super bored one evening and had no homework to do, so I looked through the pictures from the road trip my mom and I took this summer. There were a ton, so I'm working on editing them. The result was uploading like what, 5-6 photos in one day? Yeah, I did a lot, and I still have more.

Today is Friday, which means no class for me. I'm going home for this weekend which is fun. I should be leaving in a couple hours and then going back to school on Sunday afternoon. It's going to be a little weird going home, not gonna lie. It just feels like I've been gone for so LONG already, an I've really made a home out of college. I really love it here! It's already cold and rainy! Plus we had snow on the mountains...in SEPTEMBER. Yeah, I know, pretty cool.

Anyway, I'm not sure I'll have time this weekend to post new photos, and I have no idea what to expect from the coming school week, but I'll be working on editing in my free time (when I get some more)

So, have a wonderful weekend!

Peace,
Natalee

Hello my dear friends and watchers!

I'm now starting on my second week of college! I am having a wonderful time here and I really like my classes. I'm meeting people everyday, and I have made several new friends!
I'm so relieved that it's turned out to be so great as the first to days were really difficult. I think for the most part it was just because my parents were still up here with me, and the thought of them leaving me at the end of the weekend was extremely difficult to deal with. I will not pretend there were no tears involved, but after they were gone for about four or five hours, I was feeling perfectly fine.

Since then I've started classes, done homework, studied, played frisbee, played soccer, gone to ihop with about 19 people, had a movie party in my room, had a scrubs marathon in my room, and pretty much have been really enjoying myself.

I hope it goes the same for my college-bound friends and I hope everything has gone well for my friends who've already gone through it.

I'm hoping at some point to go out and take pictures sometime soon, but this week is looking a little busy homework-wise. the nice thing is that we have labor day weekend which means I have a 4.5 day weekend!