Wow, was it really the beginning of November when I last blogged? It doesn't feel like it's been a month and a half, but it has. Just like it didn't feel like the end of the semester today.
That's right; finals are done (I'm still waiting to see what some of my grades look like-yikes), books were turned in (yeah, no more Prob. and Stats!), and I'm done with homework until January 3rd. Unless you count reading eighteen chapters of "Huck Finn", which I don't since I actually enjoy reading.
Still, I thought it was pretty weird, wading through the day, realizing that once that bell rang at 2:40, it would mark the halfway mark for my junior year. I can't believe it's already halfway over; it stills feels like September sometimes (the abnormally nice weather isn't helping, either). Sometimes it's like I'm still bearing with the end-of-summer heat, or still celebrating my 17th birthday, or getting creeped out by "Paranormal Activity 2". For it to be the end of the semester, for 2010 to almost be over, is insane.
I had this same epiphany yesterday. As I was driving to my part-time job, I realized that it was a year to the day I had walked in for my first shift. Thinking back to that first time, how nervous I was to start my first ever job, and how much I've learned since then, as well as how many people I've seen come and go in that store, struck me by surprise.
I'm sure I'll be saying the same thing come May 19th. I'll marvel at how I only have one year of high school left, how I ednured my first prom, how my sister has graduated from high school. And I'll have this post to look back on when that day comes, and I'll be so amazed that it's been five months since I posted it. That's just how I am; I am fascinated with how fast time goes by. And a little frightened at the prospect.
There are so many things I dream to accomplish in the next few months, from small, high school memories to big, unimaginably awesome goals. But for right now I'm going to focus on the holidays, even though I can't believe Christmas is four days away. I want to spend time with family, work on what I need to work on, and enjoy this time away from school, because I know once it starts up again I'll be complaining that I want it to be May. And before I know, it will. Even if it doesn't feel like it.
Merry Christmas!
Also: R.I.P Grandma Kitty 1917-2010 We miss you.
