Players only love you when they're playing

Listening to Stevie Nicks always makes me nostalgic for home. It reminds me of being little and doing dishes with my dad (of course, his version would be that he was the one doing dishes and I was just watching); he'd always stop what we were doing and put me on his feet and dance with me around the kitchen. Sometimes out of nowhere, if he was listening to a really good song, he'd call me downstairs (or upstairs, if we were in the Wisconsin house) just to dance with me. Thinking of stuff like this makes me realize how lucky I am to have the family that I do. Of course, it's stuff like this that also makes me miss home the most.

I guess it didn't really help that I found a bunch of pictures from high school on my computer yesterday, either! Things here are kind of at a standstill, and I don't really know what to think of it all right now. I have two papers due, two presentations (one this week and one next week), a makeup class on Friday, and I still have to get the travel section together for the yearbook. The two girls that were working on it with me are both going to be gone this weekend and no one but me has in-design on their computer. 12 page travel section, here I come!

I wish I felt more productive lately! All I want to do is travel- I'm completely over school, I don't want to do it anymore. I feel like I could be learning more by meeting new people and seeing new things than I could by reading Tarchetti's "Tosca."

I think I'm ready for a change of scenery- and it couldn't have come at a better time, my life is going to completely change again in 6 weeks.

6 weeks. That's what this entire adventure has come down to.

6 weeks to finish classes, 6 weeks to get my stuff packed, 6 weeks to say my goodbyes.

I don't really know how to feel about that.

I'm sure not everything is going to be better about the states, just like not everything is better about living in Italy. But I'm going to miss this place when I'm gone. Life just goes on I guess. And maybe going back to the states will help me clear my mind! I feel like my thoughts are stuck on the same things lately and I'm definitely ready to get out of that cycle. I just want to feel like I can breathe again.

On a MUCH lighter note, I'm headed to Morocco for my birthday! I thought my adventures were all over after Ireland but due to an extremely generous fiscal donation from my parental saviors for my birthday I'm back again and going strong. Once I hit up Morocco we'll see where my funds are at- I still want to go to Switzerland! Or back to Austria! Or to Istanbul! Or to Sicily! Who knows what the future holds. Depends on what's cheap! I would also like to return to the states with more than $100 dollars in my bank account (which is where I was BEFORE the generous fiscal donation) so maybe I'll save it so I have gas money to get to work when I get back.

Maaaaaybeeee.

Anyway, I'm trying my hand at meatballs for dinner- everyone says that they're super easy but I've messed up cookies before so we'll see how they come out. If I don't post something new in more than 7 days something probably went wrong.

Got to go start being productive (yuck).