Auld Lang Syne.

Goodbye 2009.
You've been a roller coaster,
a whirlwind.
I'm thrilled you're over.
Onward and upward.
In an awesome direction this time.

a letter to my editors -

Dear Garth, Mom & Dad,

I somehow just managed to 4.0 another semester of college. I now have a 3.73 GPA. It hasn't always been that way, college grades have never come easy for me -- it takes a lot of 4.0's to raise oneself from a completely unfocused 1.9 GPA. Sometimes it was just plain impossible to envision there would ever actually be a finish line.

Thank you for believing in me, always encouraging me to never give up on my goals & dreams. I couldn't do any of this without all of you in my corner.
Love,
Marissa

Proverbs 3:5,6 - Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

impatiently patient.

Like the old 'open, open, open' tapping on the glass Mervyn's commercial, I am ever-so-patiently waiting for my semester grades to be posted.

I'm pretty sure the update button must be broken or sumpin' on the website.

I don't know who's more excited about this term's grades - me or my dad.

Fall term '09 is officially

OVER.

I actually, surprisingly, feel some sense of letdown.
What the hell am I going to do with myself now?!

Yes Garth, laundry & cleaning & all the other things that have fallen by the wayside thanks to school. Yes yes, I know honey.

It's finals week.

The end of the term.
It's finally here.
It couldn't have come soon enough for me.

All papers now complete & turned in.
Electronically submitted my last paper 5 minutes ago.
Nothing like waiting 'til the 11th hour.

Two exams remain.
Both tomorrow.
Fingers crossed.

I need a vacation.