Seeing the Finish Line

It's been a while I admit... but I think I had to let go of things for a little while. Coming back home has been pretty good for me I think. It had been a long time since I had actually had time to think, granted I practically have too much time to do that at home, it's been nice to reflect for a little bit. Something that I haven't been able to really escape from is the concept that I'll be graduating in a few months... Between being increasingly busy because of both work and school I hadn't given it much thought, yet many of my family members kept asking when exactly I was going to graduate and then its sort of hit me. This four year journey is nearly at an end... And as in anything it seems as though the climax of this story has been it's best part. I've fallen in love with my life at school, I've had the opportunity to meet a lot of really great people and make some connections that up until now I hadn't really thought much about, but really I've made a lot of great friends... a lot of friends that rely on me in some way, as I rely on them. Some friends I've had for longer, and some are new, but all accumulate to a pretty interesting dynamic that I've got going at school. It's hard to explain to others who I am and what I've been doing, and it's hard to understand I'm sure, but I've come to really value it.

It's hard not to feel sombre in the fact that my life is bound to change drastically in the next few months. I can't imagine where I'll be even this summer, but for some reason I hold some faith that this ride won't be ending May 9th but a new one will be beginning. Maybe in the end the best we can do is embrace uncertainty, because that's really all we have.

What is certain though is that Lauren and my game is going forward! We got the news yesterday and I'm sure she's as excited as I am. Even from home I can't help but get my mind back into "work mode" and begin thinking about scheduling and how we'll deal with the integration of new members. Unfortunately we were only given one new artist when I asked for two, which may change our scheduling a bit... and concerns me that I'll have to take on considerably more work. I was hoping to not work quite as much next semester, being my last semester, but I'm not sure how that goal is going to work out. Yet I'm convinced that this semester I'm going to fight to have at least one day off, novel concept I know haha but it sort of feels like a guilty pleasure at this point.

I guess it's already apparent in my last paragraph that its going to be a struggle this semester to think beyond the work that I'm doing now to my future, and as much as I know I need to be thinking of the future I can only hope to focus on the here and now and hope to excel one last semester at Champlain College. That is sort of my goal though, to not only excel at Champlain this last semester but really to enjoy my time in Burlington knowing that it will soon be over.

We live our lives to tell a good story... and so far I'm enjoying mine.

Also I'll be making the slow transition of this blow over to my new blog location at wesknee.com, it's still a little underconstruction but is close to being up. Please check it out though and you can check out images and a trailer from Lauren and my prototype... Enjoy!

Oh! I almost forgot (if your not viewing this from wesknee.com you should go there now) but on the right hand side you'll see a list of links that go to articles that include me in them. The most recent is "Q&A with Canyon Makers." Check that out too!