five minutes later with a list.

i wrote a post five minutes ago, i get it. but i kind of want to put this out there. i'm making goals for myself! i never really do this unless it's new years eve, and then i don't stick to them. i jokingly made a goal for myself that i would be able to do twenty push-ups before december. well, i can't even do one. so i feel like this is a realistic, challenging goal. seriously. and it got me to thinking, why not make a tiny list of goals for myself? it's important to have a few little motivations throughout the weeks. here is what i came up with:

1. be able to do twenty {real} push-ups
2. write at least one short story
3. bake three different types of pie
4. read one unrelated-to-school-book every two weeks
5. make something with my hands 

 

and there it is! it's tiny, but it's something. these don't necessarily have set deadlines on them because i don't want to beat myself up over them. except for the push-ups. those babies are serious business.

i'm a real writer!

not really. or am i? and is everyone? just a few deep thoughts for the night. but let's get to the point...one of my stories was published! granted, it was in the literary magazine on campus, but still. i think it's pretty cool...in theory, at least. at the same time, it's also very embarrassing. it's strange to think about people reading it and picking it apart...especially since my story on the first page. why oh why? oh well. the other night i {hesitantly} went to the launch event at a coffee shop around here. people were reading excerpts from their stories and poems. i, of course, didn't dare do that. i hope to one day believe fully in what i write and feel comfortable reading it in front of people i know or strangers. i've had one other story published in the saint edwards literary magazine, but i transferred before i ever got a copy! how sad. so this one sorta means a lot to me. even though this story is embarrassing. ok. i'm done being wishy-washy about this subject. i really am happy about it all.

graduation, step one.

tonight i put in my application to graduate. finally. i feel like i have been in college for an infinite number of years {when really it will only have been four and a half.} the graduation application was basically just to check up on my mailing address. really? i think i expected a question like, "hey, do you understand the universe now?" or something similar. filling out the application was a much more anticlimactic experience than i anticipated. but oh well. i'm still really, really excited! 41 more {school} days until i graduate.

{photo from a recent football game. i'm going to miss those things. just kidding.}

the carpenter.

last night i stumbled across a first listen of the avett brothers newest album, the carpenter. oh my goodness. i am in love with it already. i've been reading their interviews about this album for months. so, i guess it would be difficult for me to find flaws in any of their music because they are so dear to my heart and i think their every move is beautiful. their music is uplifting when it wants to be and sad when it needs to be. i was lucky enough to see them last year at the jazz and heritage festival in new orleans and it was a dream. they even played my most favorite song {will you return?} during their encore and i danced and just about cried. thinking about it makes me yearn to see them live again. plus, scott and seth avett are a couple o' downright hunks. i'm going on my fourth listen of the album and counting down the days 'til i can hold the real album in my hands {10 more days}!