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I feel as though I have a lot to share but not enough patience to organize my thoughts. Therefore, I give you this...a really random post about my life and thoughts as of recent.

*I finished my junior year of college. I am now officially a senior. I don't know when exactly my life starting rushing past me like the wind but it's freaking me out. I finished the crazy-kinda-wanted-to-kill-myself-there-at-the-end semester with all As and a B in German (which unfortunately counts as 2 Bs but hell, whatever). I was proud of what I accomplished this semester. I feel like I wore myself out a little bit in the process but if I had to do it all over again I wouldn't change anything. Now THAT is a good feeling. Hello senior year. Prepare to be owned.

*I went to Maryland with my best friend/roommate after finals were dunzo. It was my third time going there with her and I must say, each time I go we find a new adventure. This time, it was getting caught in a torrential downpour...while rafting on the Shenandoah River. At first it was so beautiful. I looked around and thought to myself (as a person who hates the rain with a burning passion), "This is God's glory right here. This is beautiful. This will probably be the only time I'm ever rafting in the middle of the Shenandoah and it starts raining. I love this." But then a HUGE clap of thunder shook me out of my utopic state rather quickly and just like that rafting was over. Then it was the battle of Man (and Women) versus nature. Team One, go get the cars. You're gonna hafta walk a mile down the road in the rain. Go. Team Two, the three of us have gotta get this massive raft to the other side of the river so it can be loaded into the trunk once it arrives. Go. ... Guess which team I was on? So as I, a skinny little white girl, tried to help my best friend's sister and her boyfriend get this freaking enormous and really heavy raft to the other side of the river, I felt like I was in a movie. It was actually kinda cool. And once we got it to the other side, I felt like we had really accomplished something. It was so cool. Then we sat in the frigid rain for thirty minutes. Yeah...that part...that part sucked.

*I miss my friends from school. Some a miss very much. Some I miss very, very much. I'm trying to keep in touch. I'm not doing a very good job. So far...it's just been the ones I miss very, very much.

*I'm going to Charleston on Thursday. Hells yeah. So excited. I will definitely be bringing some more trashy books to read. I will definitely be stuffing my face with the most delicious seafood on the planet. I will hopefully get a tan. Maybe. Probably not. I get burned. Eff. I'm taking this trip with my parents. It just dawned on me today that this could very well be the last summer vacation type trip I ever take with my parents. I'm 21 years old. I'll be a college graduate this time next year (God willing). Who knows where I'll be in my life next year. I could be in another city, starting a new life. It's crazy what a dynamic place we're in right now, comrades. Soak up this time you have with your parents. I have every intention. I love them very much.

*I have come to the conclusion that some kids need to be kept on leashes. Never thought I would say that. Either that or parents need to learn how to tell their children, "Honey, don't dart our randomly in front of Melanie when she's trying to walk around the Titanic museum. She's libel to go into a conniption fit." I mean, really!

*Oh yeah, I went to the Titanic museum today...I was gonna type "and I jizzed in my pants" but I didn't think that would be either tasteful or appropriate. How about...it was bitchin'. Better?

*I need an idea for this one act that I'm going to write. I was thinking about it the other day and I thought to myself, "Melanie, you gotta write about something you know." So what do I know?

I feel as though this whole post has been very self-centered. I apologize. But you know. It happens. I guess I just don't have much to vent about right now. It's weird. I mean, things have happened to me recently that should have made me mad (or even down-right furious) but they didn't. I just feel...happy. Content. Is it the weather? Is it the lack of school-stress? Or is it something else?

Or is it something else?