A little jumpstart
I've never been a girl with any inclination towards the 'domestic arts'. Yet all of the sudden I am overcome by the desire to nest. I can't wait to move into our place on the Hill and "play house". There's so much to be done, but I think the move-in process will be more therapeutic than laborious.
I suppose this new urge to paint walls, make curtains, and shop for pots and pans stems from my complete lack of permanence over the past year or so. I think I'm a person who, to some degree, thrives off of change. However, the constant switching of gears that I'm forced for perform during breaks sort of takes a toll on my psyche. I have two distinctly different lives, and it's difficult to tear myself away from one and throw myself wholeheartedly into the other.
It's exhilarating (but startling) to think that this is my last full break, and probably the last time I'll live at 21 Satucket Avenue for any extended period of time. My Christmas break will be consumed almost entirely by my family vacation in Florida and my service trip to Nicaragua, which leaves little time for reunions with friends on the South Shore. If all goes well, I'll hopefully be gone for Spring and Summer breaks in 2008 as well.
Although I don't have the slightest inkling what I want to do with the rest of my life, I can't help but feel that my life is more in order now than it ever has been.