Wrapping Up

I was blessed with only two finals this semester, one of which isn't really a final. On Monday, I will be writing the third of three Greek exams; and on Friday, I'll write my Sociology final. After I finish my exams, I'll be going home!

I am honestly so ready to go home and have Christmas. Not only because I am sick of school, but I am sick of the boundaries I've been looking at this term. Other than the odd time I went out to do something I don't normally do, I've been looking at the same things each and every day. Honestly, it gets tiring. So basically, I need a break.

Home is usually a place of familiarity and comfort for people that have been away; but for me, it is a sense of renewal or freshness. I think that this has come at a really opportune time because the one thing that I've discovered that is worse than apathy is numbness. There's a phrase in a song that says, "the wheels keep turning but the feeling is gone." I used to think this meant apathy, but I feel like there is more to it than just apathy. When you've been "feeling" something for a long enough time, more specifically on the negative side, that it becomes numb, it's one of the worst things to experience. Whether it's physically or emotionally, when pain grows numb, it completely flips you inside out. You're so used to it, that you forget it's there. And that numbness causes a lot of negative things, so much that you wonder why it's happening. So that's why as this term is wrapping up, I'm so stoked to go home; that way, I can just do my best to forget about everything and renew myself for the winter term.

Anyways... (=

I'm trying to work up some motivation to study for my Greek test on Monday, and I'm going to be putting together a playlist for that. I have never really been the type to study best with music. But I am discovering more and more that I have found a lot of music where I can just let it run and it drowns out everything exterior for me so I can focus. Most of the time, I guess the music doesn't really have words to them, although there are quite a few songs I really enjoy being played when I am studying/working.

I'm also stoked to shop when I get back to Edmonton because, let's face it, shopping in Calgary is not nearly as good. Maybe I just don't know all the right places here, but it's still not as good. I was so underwhelmed when I went to Chinook a few weeks back. I'd been there I think 2 or 3 times since moving to Calgary, but never really got to do any in depth shopping. I got to do that back in November and it was disappointing to say the least. Not my taste. I mean, there's still stuff I like, but it's not like some places in Edmonton like WEM or South Common where I can get more or less all that I want from the one shopping center. Chinook, though, does have a True Religion store that I didn't get a chance to go into - and Edmonton doesn't have that.

So as Christmas is around the corner, I wonder what else I will be wrapping up other than this semester of school? (= If I could wrap you up, I would. Haha!

"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill