Well, in review it's been an interesting year. There have been lots of adventures both big and small. Hopefully its only the preface to the rest of my life. The good things that have happened within the last year were great. Road trips, white water rafting, hiking in Shenandoah, adventure foods, birthdays, proposals, racing, camp outs, family bonfires, Adventures with Em and Jolynn, graduation, being accepted into a paid internship with Disney, holidays, s'mores, star gazing, astronomy club, Lambda Alpha, not killing a classmate with a bag of trailmix (she is alright), Christmas, hanging out with all my friends, classes, lifting and parties with C.Jones, hanging out with my sis, etc. I love my life and truly only envision it getting better. I am not delusional; there will be set backs but in the big picture those will only be little dots.
Soundtrack to my year:
Pocket of sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield
Tunderstruck by AC/DC
I wanna be a billionaire by Travie McCoy
Jigorous by Ceili Rain
Boy Scout Rap
Don't be shy by Cat Stevens
Pray for you by Jaron and the long road to love
I wanna rock and roll all night by Kiss
Don't Stop Believing by Journey
Haven't met you yet by Michael Buble
Stair way to heaven by Led Zeppelin
Gives you hell by All American Rejects
How far we've come by Matchbox 20
I have decided to let the bad things roll off my shoulder onto somebody else (up yours). Besides, to be completely honest I don't remember most of the unpleasantries. 
Well, I just got home a couple hours ago from on of the most liberating weekends of my life. The entire weekend went by in a flash. On the 19th I graduated from college with a double major in anthropology and communication with a 3.49...so far. I roundup so when they asked for everyone with a 3.5 to stand up I did. After the ceremony we went to the Tower Inn for dinner and it was amazing! I was surrounded by my family and my best friend. It was an evening of nothing but smiles, music, good food and good drinks. At one point I looked up at into a mirror and saw Frank Sinatra looking down at me smiling. Okay, there was a picture of him on the opposite wall but it was one of those moments...I love Frank Sinatra.
Anyway, on the 20th my mother and I went to another local joint and had lunch; Sidetrack. We both had beer and fish and chips. It was delicious and the atmosphere was so warm and inviting. We were surrounded by people who loved each other, the entire place was laughing and smiling. I am going to miss Ypsi so much.
On the night of the 20th to the wee hours of the morning of the 21 I was at the Observatory viewing the lunar eclipse. Everyone was so upset because it was ridiculously cloudy and the light pollution was terrible; especially with the snow. But I thought it was perfect. The eclipse was barely visible through the clouds, barely peeking through here and there. Like the direction of my life right now. It is clear but only barely. I have the immediate plans outlined but everything else is a blur off in the distant somewhere overcast by clouds and fog. I had a three hour car ride home to think about where all of this was going. And I just kept going back to standing on the rooftop looking up and the eclipsed moon. No stars, just the moon. Life has been a whirl wind and that moment was just perfect timing. 
Kudos to God.
"a railroad Huckney, a traveling epic Huckney, crossing and recrossing the country every year, south in the winter, north in the summer and only because he has no place he can stay without getting tired of it and because there's nowhere to go but everywhere and keep rolling under the stars, generally the western stars" -Kerouac
I feel suspiciously at peace with the fact that this Sunday I will be leaving my undergraduate career behind me and moving on to more interesting lands and unfamiliar company. It feels as though I just came to this university yesterday;all of a sudden it is coming to a close and I am okay with that. Last week I was, not exactly plagued with a very bizarre feeling, but experienced a stirring. There is a mixture of anticipation, dread, and excitement. All of a sudden it's become quite clear that at this point I have this world wide open to me. I am not being chained to one place because of higher education. The feeling of being unburdened for the first time is confusing, amazing, but confusing. I love being free which is why I loved summer breaks so much. They hold the potential and promises of adventures and tales that will be told. But I always new that I would have to go back to my education. However, even though I know I am going to graduate school it is still over eight months away. Leaving me with the most free time I have ever had.
I know that I will be filling some of that time with an Internship at Disney World but still, it is Disney World and, from what I have been told, will hold nothing but good experiences. After that I am hoping to go to Albania for a couple weeks and I may volunteer at a summer camp that I worked at for the last couple summers. I need to spend some time just being nowhere. I love the feeling of being in the woods or near the ocean and the upcoming months of my life seem to be the perfect opportunity for such wanderings.
Hello,
My name is Virginia and I am looking for a place to put my mind. A place where I can put anything and nothing because in my head all I have is everything and sometimes I just don't know what to do with it. I need a place where I can put myself. A place that exists beyond my paper journals. A place where I can just be out there when I am stuck in here. Photos, quotes, musings, stories, advice, truth, storms, blue skies, familiarity, the strange and the unusual. I love to be free and in the technological world the internet is the ocean and the mountains.
So, when I can't be out there I guess I can be here.
Well, in review it's been an interesting year. There have been lots of adventures both big and small. Hopefully its only the preface to the rest of my life. The good things that have happened within the last year were great. Road trips, white water rafting, hiking in Shenandoah, adventure foods, birthdays, proposals, racing, camp outs, family bonfires, Adventures with Em and Jolynn, graduation, being accepted into a paid internship with Disney, holidays, s'mores, star gazing, astronomy club, Lambda Alpha, not killing a classmate with a bag of trailmix (she is alright), Christmas, hanging out with all my friends, classes, lifting and parties with C.Jones, hanging out with my sis, etc. I love my life and truly only envision it getting better. I am not delusional; there will be set backs but in the big picture those will only be little dots.
Soundtrack to my year:
