as the semester draws to a close...

so much has been on my mind lately. for a while i let myself get a bit too stressed out. right now, truth is...i'm just tired. i kind of wish i had a little bit of a break to look forward to, rather than a summer of classes and work. i know that would bore me, though, and quite quickly. any summer that i've spent "relaxing and doing nothing" has just felt so wasted. yes, it's good to relax...but it's the "doing nothing" that gets really annoying. i need to be busy with something, and truth is i would really like to have a job over the summer. so that's what i'm doing. i've been warned, though, about taking summer classes...a friend of mine here at Sam took a full load every semester, and also every summer and winter session. it allowed her to graduate within four years, but she said it just about killed her with stress...she overworked herself. even though she is done with college on time, she told me that she regrets not giving herself time to slow down.

maybe there's a good point to that. maybe i should let the summer be a little bit of a break for me. it would be nice to take a break from all the studying and actually have an opportunity to relax when i come home from work each day. it might be a good idea to consider that before i run off to register for these summer classes.

on another note, i'm glad to say that the semester is coming to a rather peaceful end. the Lord has blessed me with so many things...with really great friends from school to miss over the summer (and perhaps even to visit over the summer), with peace about exams and all the stressful parts of ending a semester, and with friends and family whom i love enough to have missed quite a bit over the year. now i get to see those friends and family, and actually spend some time with them. i really look forward to it. and when next semester comes around, i will be looking forward to that too. i guess what i'm trying to say is that i'm really content and at peace with where i am at this very moment. the anxiety isn't there and it's just...nice.

my brother graduates from college this saturday, and i get to go see him in nashville. so many wonderful things lie ahead of him...i am so so proud of him and will miss him as he starts his life "out in the real world," living in tennessee. but hey...it gives me a great excuse to visit nashville whenever i feel like it. :)