Scotland 2009

I am going to the University of Glasgow next fall. I was accepted. It's hard to believe but I was and I'm going. It's still kind of shocking. I've been talking about it for so long and it's actually happening. I'm ecstatic for the experience and that I'm finally feeling back on track with the things I wanted to do. It's a great feeling.

It's been snowing quite a bit. Right now it's raining. I really hate winter here. I realize I say it a lot but I really honestly do. I get the sad every year at this time. I need to move to a place where this doesn't happen. Where it doesn't snow 5 feet and get down to below 0. It's true that Chicago gets colder than Siberia at this time of year. I've weather.com'd that shit. The UK may be rainy, but it sure beats horribly cold and snowy/sleety/icy/rainy.

I'm going to miss Chicago. It's been pretty amazing rediscovering a city I've grown up with. Working downtown is pretty much an odd dream-come-true. Not that I've spent my life dreaming of working downtown, but I've thought about what it would be like to do so since I was young. To be one of those people who walks around downtown and works in a high-rise. It's bizarre. Probably because though I spent a lot of time thinking about what it would be like, I never actually thought I'd get to experience it so that's been kind of unreal and fun. I'll miss Chicago but I doubt I'll ever return for good. I'm having too much fun trying to figure out other cities. It will always be home though, I'll say that much.

10 more months and I'm leaving. I'm not sure when I'll actually be back. I don't think it will be until summer of 2010. I just want as much time abroad as possible. 3 years doesn't seem like enough time either. As weird as it may be, but it doesn't. I feel like once I'm gone, there's no stopping me from keeping going except myself. I want to see Europe but I also want to get in as much as the world as possible. I can't wait for Dubai and Cairo or Kiev and St. Petersburg. I have 3 years to explore it all and it's not enough time. It's silly, but it's important.

I'm painting again. That's been really nice. I was writing a lot but I've been writer's blocked for awhile so I started to paint again. Perhaps I will post pictures of the new work, but I also realize I always say that, and I don't follow-through. I guess we'll see.