Whirlwind

Yo dawgz. Well, another hell-like week has gone by. A week filled with staying up too late working or doing homework. The staying up late, though, is totally my fault. I am a creature of procrastination. Sure, I had an entire semester to write my five page Spanish paper last week, but instead, I wrote it at 9:00 PM the night before it was due. Get this: I have another one due tomorrow, as well as a presentation. But you know, I'll conquer it. It was also a week filled with the feeling of letting individuals down. I've become so consumed with the whirlwind events in my life that I haven't taken the time to be there for those whom I really value. I've taken a step back and have reflected on the things I value most. Is it my grades or my relationships? Maybe it's just the senioritis I've caught but I know that my relationships mean so much more to me than my grades. Yeah, I'll get a $33,000+ piece of paper come December, but the relationships I have and am a part of are priceless #cliché I don't want to risk losing them if I can help it.

I could have easily stayed in my apartment all weekend just wasting away on my couch: eyes burning from the constant glare at my computer screen, little fingers barely hinged onto my hand from furiously typing, and a butt that is not attached to the upper half of my body from falling into my couch. Essentially, I would have become a corpse by the end of this weekend with flies buzzing around my decayed body. Rather than risk the decay, I once again put off the school work.

The weekend was filled with work, driving, designing, photographing, and hiking. My favorite part, naturally, was the work. PSYCH. It was the hiking. And the absurd amount of candy corn I ate. My friend John and I went out to Hoffman Hills to explore the rolling mountains hills of Eau Claire, WI. The foliage of the trees was breathtaking: auburn, burgundy, orange, yellow, red, etc. Fall is a pretty basic thing, I guess. After climbing a tower equivalent to Rapunzel's, we casually snapped some photos--with and without a selfie stick--and spit over the ledge. After sunset, we descended from the hills. However, the sun set much more quickly than we anticipated. Before we knew it, we were meandering through the moonlight. We also got lost in the woods for about an hour and conveniently didn't have headlamps. Thank goodness for flashlights on our phones. Well, John's phone because mine still has water damage from my last adventure to the Last Frontier.

I also was able to meet mom in the Dells for about an hour to get some grub. By which I mean, soup. The four hour car ride (round trip) was worth because I got to see her and well, drive. My favorite thing to do. Clearing your mind, thinking things through, and just contemplating life. Which for me, can often turn into something dangerous because I get in deep in my head and just overthink everything.

Yesterday's topic of thought: my future (once again). The thought of my life post graduation, is growing. Metaphorically, I would compare it to a benign tumor. Just in the sense that it's constantly there occupying space in my mind, annoying (but harmless), a conversation piece, and it has the potential to become malignant. Okay, that was maybe weird. But this is just how my Allie mind works, yo. I also thought about this upcoming Friday and how stoked I am for it. In case you are unaware, this Friday, October 30th, is NATIONAL CANDY CORN DAY. A day better than national waffle day, national ice-cream day, and national-donut day. I'm stoked. Then it's Halloween. You guys, I have no free weekend until December. WHAT THE HECK? That thought absolutely terrifies me. I am looking forward to having exciting events on the weekends to use as checkpoints for my long weeks of (cl)asses, but then that means my time as an undergraduate is coming to an end. YIKES.

OK. I want to keep talking, but I need to do homework and my bladder is about to explode (TMI? Eh, whatever).

Drink a pumpkin spice latte with an extra espresso shot.

-A