I want so much more than they have planned...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeDPySP4nIw


"I want adventure in the great wide somewhere
I want it more then I can tell
and for once it might be grand
to have someone understand
I want so much more then they've got planned"

Thank you Belle, for completely summing me up. Belle is strong-willed, independent, and intelligent, and I'd like to think I am too. She wants freedom, and adventure, and the opportunity to choose her own fate.

I am getting so excited for graduation, even though it's not until December. I chose my major for this very reason- I can go absolutely (literally) anywhere. I can go into the Peace Corps, or Americorps, do field studies or ethnographies all over the world, be involved in any museum, any Cultural Resource Management Project, or discover a new civilization (in my fedora) ... I get my adventure.

Just 9 months until I get to join the real world, and I couldn't be more ready. I am saving up my money, looking at Grad schools and Jobs (whichever makes more sense once I'm out of school), and cities I want to possibly live in (Seattle, NYC, Denver...). I'm hoping to either get into a Museology program, or work somewhere like the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan (they're hiring right now- dammit!).

And to top off all of this fabulousness, I'm single, which I'm actually enjoying. I thought being single, and living alone would be absolutely horrible, but I am loving it. I had a fantastic weekend hanging out with a great guy, and if Jeff was here, I would have missed out on that. I can do what I want, when I want, without listening to anyone being jealous or whining. It's so...freeing.
Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be. :D