Sh...Sh...Sh...Shaking...

Yes, there was an earthquake yesterday. No, I didn't even know it until I saw the news. I was in my car, it shook a little, I thought my car was dying. I pulled over, my car was fine. It was no big deal. I guess now I've experienced everything L.A.

Now I'm just trying to get my stuff together so I don't have to spend ALL day tomorrow packing.  Ugh. I didn't even know I brought this much stuff. Sigh. These last two days are going to be the most painful. I'm ready to be on the road so I'm antsy, but I'm sad to be leaving my internship. I wish I could just bring the internship home. That would be awesome.

Also, now that home is only a few days away, my brain is switching out of intern mode and into teacher/student mode. I'm three papers behind on my internship journals that I have to keep for credit. Plus, now I have to start thinking about writing my HUUUUUGE research paper about the internship. Ugh. That will not be fun. As soon as I get home I have to start getting ready for class too. I have books to buy and lessons to plan.

Oh yeah, I DID actually get my GA approved for one more semester. There was a bit of a crisis there because originally the graduate college said I wouldn't be able to be a GA (I have my own theory on this, but they CLAIMED I had taken too many classes outside of my course of study -- but I'm pretty sure it had more to do with a certain person -- but that's neither here nor there) thanks to Dr. Buzzard (the dept. head, who has been so supportive of all of us students out here interning), Dr. Larson (who's just awesome!), and Diana (also awesome), and my advisor Dr. Bauman (who is always helpful and always seems to have the information I need) the graduate college kindly agreed to extend my GA to include this fall semester, but I do HAVE to graduate in December. So thank goodness for that.

So now my brain is shifting and I'm not really here and I don't think I'm really there either. I'm somewhere in between -- Kansas maybe. HAH!

But I am sad to be leaving. My internship was awesome (though if I NEVER hear the phrase 'flyover state' again it will be too soon, and I'M FROM MISSOURI! Not MIchigan, not Wisconsin, MISSOURI -- I know, I know, it's one of those states you've never been too and therefore in your opinion is just some backwoods yokel farm of no consequence...) all of the people I met are amazing and they had some really good advice to give me on an almost daily basis. It's been nice to be on the inside of this industry for awhile so that all of my future plans and hopes are less about conjecture and a little more practical now.  

I still don't know what will happen after I graduate. I'm just trying not to think about it. I have no plans.

Maybe that's a good thing.

Oh well, back to packing!