Apolaustic - (n.) Devoted to enjoyment.

"Some flutterbies they enter and
Play around my soul
And once again part of me
Fills up to be whole

It's so beautiful up here now
Oh, i think i might just stay
All alone and by myself
so free and far away

Da da n' day da,

just flying in my aeroplane."

- Imogean Heap

Wonderful weekend. I shall formulate a list.

Things I did this weekend:

Played Blackjack and Texas Hold 'Em for the first time.

Ice Skated for the first time in three years.

Saw and caught up with one of my best friends whom I haven't seen since fall.

Got a lesson about puberty during my interview, while Martin Luther's bust awkwardly stared us down.

Got addicted to Greek with Alexa and Keren, and now must catch up on three seasons. I shall update you on my progress.(First one finished, wins?)

Was given a lot to think about.

Realized summer is coming freakishly close.

After a weekend in small town Minnesota, you know what I've been thinking about lately? Big cities and pretty countries. Particularly residing in them. I really want to study abroad now, at this present time. I feel like now, more than ever, is a great time for me to go somewhere. Do something. Hop on a plane and get a job selling old books and making coffee in a tiny box of a building in some foreign county. I could read, write, hike, bike, run, take pictures, learn new cultures, drink delicious coffee, study foreign works, meet completely unique people, and be in a place far away from what I'm used to. I'm ready for this in my life now, and I fear the longer I wait, the more my life may change and put me in a place where the opportunity would not be as easy or sensible. Perhaps it is not even sensible now, but I feel as though at age 19 if you are driven by a dream, it is okay for this dream to be a bit nonsensical.

Greece. Hustling, bustling, beautiful Greece.

Take me there, airplane.

When I was in high school, I had this plan formulated in my head. Go to college to get my general education credits somewhere in the midwest, and then get out and go somewhere new and exciting for my last two or three years of college. I never felt like this would be unfair to friends, to just pick up and leave for a far away place. One, because I have always been pretty good at keeping up with long distant friendships, since I've had to do this for quite the years now with some of my best friends. And two, because I'd meet new people wherever I chose to go to, and I had already formulated pictures in my mind of my new friends and I in these new exciting places.

I still like this plan.

I'm realizing more and more that my dream isn't necessarily a job. Everyone always asks young people what their dreams are, and you always hear, "Follow your dreams!". Well, I never knew what my dream was really... I never knew what I was passionate about enough to make it my highest dream. Because, many of my job "dreams" included devoting my life to jobs that are centered in California, but if I followed this, I would rarely see the ones I love and the nostalgic life I couldn't bare to live without for years at a time. Thus, my "dream" didn't seem worth pursuing. I feel as though, as I grow older, my "dream" is just to soak up as much enjoyment from life as possible. My dream is to see and experience as many of the beautiful, possibly small things in life that fascinate me as possible.

So, I shall try this. Greece is high on this list.

Finally, aside from my opinion that The Office is well past it's prime, I just watched the episode from two weeks ago, "Sabre", and really enjoyed it. Well, folks, John Krasinski directed it. He made the jokes real, actually humorous, and brought back the old Office style I grew to love. Also, he walked in on a grown man using a children's toilet. I love this man. :]

"There are very few things that would make me not want to team up with David Wallace, and 'Suck It' is one of them." - Michael Scott.

"It turns out a lot of parents want the very best for their children. That's weird." - Jim

"We're hoping our interview seals the deal." - Pam

"There's always the army. The infantry." - Jim

"Ooohkay." - Pam

Rad: This man is my hero.

Unrad: Paper? Oops.

Next Greek Episode: Season 1 Episode 5.

xx.