Weeeeell, it's been a while since I've posted on my blog, and since the only things I've been posting about lately are grumbling rants about a lack of creativity or long-winded recounts of ill-spotted sicknesses, I've decided to go in a different direction for my next post. It is TWO THOUSAND TWELVE baby, the year of alliteration!
(Although, I guess that's not really true... The "thousand" doesn't really count since it makes the "th" sound instead of the "t" sound, soooo it's not really alliteration after all.)
ANYWAY. I know I moaned excessively in my last post about being unbearably uncreative or what-have-you, and maybe there is a bit of underlying truth to it, but that's not to say I am not happy in Austin. In fact, I'm actually the happiest I've ever been over an extended period of time, (excluding the days when I was under 4 feet tall and drew on the sidewalk in chalk all day and ate my sandwiches in shapes. You can't compare adulthood happiness to the simple-minded happiness of children. I mean, I was happy all day with just some paper, colored pencils, Oreos, and a marathon of Rocko's Modern Life on tv).
In sharp contrast to my younger days, I haven't really been too happy since leaving high school. In fact, UNT drove me friggin insane.
So naturally, despite changing to UT in fall of 2011, I was still determined to be miserable because that's what I was used to. I didn't know what it was like to not be tired all the time and stressed out to the point of hair-loss. But now....... I do. And it's nice!
I enjoy Arabic. I like the language. I like the learning environment. I think my future looks promising (assuming the world doesn't end and all that). So even though I still have a lot of work that must be done, it's manageable and sometimes... dare I say it... enjoyable. I won't drag on this post for now. But I want to keep things moving forward rather than just standing still.
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