Thoughts on the Future

I began my blog stressing out about what I am going to do after graduation. I am happy to report that after three and a half months I have some direction!!! I have decided that I am moving back closer to home at least for a little while. Home for me is South Ga., so right now I am headed to the Valdosta area. I have applied for one job and have leads on a couple more! I would love to get a job in a hospital marketing/PR department, so we will see where that endeavor goes. I feel like things are coming together much more than they were a few months ago. I finally took the initiative and began to get things done. I am happy with my resume, which I thought would never happen!! I am confident that the right job is coming around the corner! Although I am really nervous, I am also really excited!

The Wonders of Construction

Have you ever been woken up by a really loud BOOM? Well, this is something that I get to enjoy EVERY morning of the week and sometimes even Saturday!! It never gets any less frightening or any less annoying! I feel like I am getting robbed and shot at everyday which is a wonderful way to start the day! Right across the street from my house, new apartments are being built. They are less than 20 yards from my bedroom window! Let me just tell you, construction workers DON'T try to be quite! So many mornings I have wanted to go yell! When we first moved into our house, we weren't told that we would have to deal with this aggravation all year! It wasn't as bad during the winter, but then I was being woken up by squirrels in my wall!! I must say it will be pretty nice to get away from this house and back to some peace and quite after graduation!

A Glimpse into An Advertising World

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My Biggest Fear

About 10 minutes ago I saw one of the biggest spiders I have ever seen in my life!! Let me just say I am TERRIFIED of spiders! This one was alive and in my bed I almost had a heart attack! Oh the glories of living on a porch! Not really I am just kidding! My room is a porch that was converted into a room, so it has a brick wall and brick tile floor. Apparently, this is a perfect place for spiders to live according to the Orkin man!! GREAT!! There is no way I am sleeping in there tonight. I don't even want to go in there in the morning to pack up my stuff! I don't know where my fear stems from, but I do know that it is very intense! AGGHHH...

My Last Day as an Undergraduate

Tomorrow will be last official day of class as an undergraduate student at the University of Georgia. I have very mixed emotions about this time in my life. Of course I am very excited to be done with school, but at the same time it is extremely terrifying! I am getting very sad about leaving the friends that I have grown closest to during my college career. In less than 13 days I will be able to walk through the Arch on North Campus and become part of the legend!! Again, it is a bittersweet time for me! I can honestly say that I don't have any regrets from college, and my last two years (both senior years!) have been especially incredible!! I would go back to the beginning and do every year over in a second! In class, my teachers keep reminding us how we will never get this time back, so we better live it to the fullest now! I intend to do just that for the next two weeks! My roommates and I have a full week planned the week of graduation.

1) Show off our karaoke skills
2) Eat at Allen's
3) Float down the Broad River
4) Spend an afternoon at Agua Linda
5) Braves Game
6) UGA Baseball Game
7) Get shirts printed at the print shop downtown
8) Find all the Bulldogs in Athens and take pictures

College has come to an end, and now we must all make decisions that lead us to the next path of our lives. For some of us, letting go is not going to be easy. I think the thing that I am having the hardest time with is knowing that when I wake up in a few weeks I will not be able to walk in my best friends' rooms when I need advice or just want to hang out! It is a feeling similar to moving out of the dorms freshman year, but with a little less relief and a little more grief. This time we know that we aren't coming back together in 3 months because realistically, each of us will be going our separate ways hours apart. For some people this is very hard to relate to because they are not close to their roommates at all. For me, I have been lucky enough to live with my 3 best friends and we have actually remained close and probably grown even closer! In a little over a week we will all walk through the Arch and take our last pictures together as students as we enter the "real world."

Athens Twilight

This past weekend I attended Twilight in downtown Athens. Saturday morning we walked downtown to eat at Five Guys Burgers and Fries, which was really good by the way! Once we got downtown we saw vendors everywhere as well as cyclists doing tricks in several different locations. We stopped to watch a few of the guys, and they were pretty awesome!!! Later that night we went to the actual Twilight bicycle race. I have been to Twilight before, but I have never actually gotten to watch the race! We watched the last 45 minutes from right behind the pit crews. While we were standing there, we saw so many guys quit the race and several more had to stop to get tires changed. If you have never gone, Athens Twilight should definitely go onto your "To Do" list! On Twilight, downtown Athens is a very cool place to be; everyone is just in the mood to have fun. There is something for everyone from families who are ready for a day out of the house to college students who are ready to party the night away! If you didn't make it this year, mark your calendars for next spring!

Skiing Adventure

A few days ago, one of my roommates found a video from a ski trip that we took during spring break. We all had a hard time picking skiing back up, but for Jade this task was undeniably difficult. For most of the first day, we just had to meet her at the bottom, which sounds very mean I know, but it was almost impossible to ski with her. The one time that we decided to stay with her on the entire run, 50 yards from the bottom she decided she needed a break. When we told her we were almost at the bottom, she said she needed a break right that second and just fell so that she could "have her break!!" Keep in mind this wasn't the first time or the second!! The next day she went to ski school!! This is just a glimpse into Jade's skiing escapade!