Moving home with confidence

My senior show opened on Friday and it went really well. I was really scared I wouldn’t get it done in time but I actually had plenty of time. I did slack on chemistry though, so now I’ve got to play catch-up. The show is still in the gallery right now and will be for all of this week. I’m freaking out a little because there are only 16 school days left and that seems like not nearly enough. I am relieved to not have to worry about Art anymore (except for Color class).

I’m still nervous about moving home, but less so since I’ve been trying to take charge of my room and arrange it the way I want it. I’ve got so much stuff that needs to fit in my room that some of it just isn’t going to work out very well. I completely forgot that I’ve an entire dresser that needs to fit in there. I’ve been operating on the assumption that I will have plenty of space but now that I’ve realized this dresser needs to fit in there as well, I might have to get rid of some things. I have to have the dresser. I need a place to put my clothes and the shelf system I have right now does not work for that purpose. I’ve got way too many clothes for that system. Probably I’m going to have to get rid of the coffee table I have which doesn’t really serve a purpose except as a surface to put things on (which Adam would say needs to be gotten rid of anyway to avoid clutter).

I’m also trying to figure out what to do with all my posters. Putting them on the walls would be interesting to look at but it would make the room feel claustrophobic, I think. I’ve got so many of them that it seems to me they would take up far too much space. You wouldn’t be able to see the pepto-bismal pink of my room.

I’m working on cleaning out the closet in my room. For the past few years its been used as storage space for whatever junk we didn’t want to see anymore plus all of the suitcases we’ve acquired. I’ve made Mom move them all out and now I’m going through all of the papers and junk piled in there. I need more tubs because I like keeping my old school stuff but I might just have to toss it all. Its very unlikely that I will ever need any of it again but highly likely that it will take up space that could be used for other things. What things, I’m not exactly sure, though I do know that I’m out of shelf space almost completely. I need a lot more shelf space for all of the books that I want to keep in my room. I was even brutal on a lot of them and put them in the half-price books pile but I have enough that I want to keep and plan to acquire more that more shelf space is a necessity.

Easter is this weekend and I’m planning on doing a lot of rearranging of my room while I’m home. There’s a lot of junk in my room that is completely unnecessary or even just poorly organized so there’s not a lot of free space. Hopefully this coming weekend I can rearrange and toss a lot of stuff so that when I move home after graduation, the moving in process will be simplified and have a direction.

Amanda and I got fitted for our bridesmaid dresses yesterday. Lori is going with red as her wedding color even though it is one of her least favorite colors because it matches the lining of Josh’s (her fiancée) uniform. He’s a marine and he’s going to wear his uniform to get married in. As a result, all of the bridesmaid dresses are red with white underskirt and sash. Lori’s dress is white with red trim. I think its going to look great even if she doesn’t like red the best. Fortunately, its not an obnoxious red but a darker red. Its less offensively bright then. I’m excited for her wedding. Now that I’ve found a job for the summer that’s going to be flexible in terms of dates, I’m excited for this summer in general.

Crap! I just remembered that I need to confirm my registration at the University of Iowa so I can register for classes. I keep forgetting to do that. I’ve also never heard back from that one guy about a possible Master’s program for med school prep. I’ve temporarily given up on him. I’ll call about my non-degree seeking student registration then I’ll call him about Masters program possibilities. I’ve decided that the University of Iowa is like a foreign country. If you don’t speak the language, you’re not going to get by very well. I’m determined to learn the “language” of bureaucracy they seem to be using because I will not be pushed aside, even if I’m less than sure of what I’m doing. Confidence is the key to accomplishing anything in life. A little confidence can get you pretty far, even if you don’t actually feel as confident as you seem.

Books: I read Eldest by Christopher Paolini. This is the second book in the series, the first being Eragon. Its not a very unique plot line because a lot of it is predictable but it is enjoyable and I’m looking forward to reading the third in the series. Unfortunately, Hillary doesn’t own it (yet) and I’ll probably have to go on a waiting list in order to get it from the library. This also puts a kink in my book system because I’ll have to read it when I get it from the library and not in the order its supposed to be in. I’ve also finished a book called A Thousand Words for Stranger which was a book I picked up from Barnes and Noble one time when trying to find ways to spend my gift certificates. It was sci-fi and entertaining but not a favorite. I did enjoy it and if I get the chance to read the next two books, I probably will but overall it was just okay.