Seven Days and Counting...

So I woke up this morning to the realization that I leave for New York in about a week (well, a week and 12 hours or so). I am very excited to see New York and I’m excited to see my mom again, but at the same time I’m really nervous. I just got an e-mail yesterday from another internship I had applied for giving me the whole line of “Unfortunately, due to the high volume of qualified applicants this year…” I didn’t really want that particular internship, but still…I thought that I was a lot more likely to get that one than The Cloisters. Hopefully I’ll be able to impress the Cloisters’ education staff enough that they’ll be willing to take a chance on an inexperienced Northwesterner rather than taking another Ivy-League, private prep-school graduate.

While I’ve been looking forward to this trip and my mind has been reeling with plans and ideas, I haven’t yet set any day-to-day plans to paper. . I’ve been watching movies and reading books to prepare myself (When Harry Met Sally, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Thomas Hovings’ King of Confessors, etc.). It’s been tough to actually make concrete plans though because the whole thing still doesn’t feel real. I suppose in a week and 12 hours it will just have to feel real. I also am swamped with work that I just don’t want/haven’t wanted to do. Somehow the semester is half over and I didn’t even notice it go by. I really need to try and at least get caught up, if not ahead, before Spring Break.

In other news, I just turned in the big chunk of my study abroad application this past week so that’s starting to take shape. It’s also looking like I’m going back to being a dual-major (Museum Studies and Anthropology). With all the anthro classes I’ve already taken and all the archaeology courses I plan to take in Ireland I figure I might as well finish up the degree.

This next week is going to be insane: Ross and I are going to a Dropkick Murphys concert on Monday, the house is going to the Chandler Ostrich Festival on Friday (yay! Ostrich races!), and I am working at the museum Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (a special weekend display is going in…Art and Flowers…about 50 area florists are creating arrangements inspired by pieces in the museum and they’ll be installing them on Thursday). Besides this I am also supposed to tutor a freshman in art history, schedule a haircut for myself, pick my roommate’s friend up at the airport, AND get ready for my Spring Break trip. It’s almost too much for me to even think about now. Oh well, this too shall pass, right? But I don’t know that I want it to pass…at the very least life is not boring!