Belle Voile // Beautiful Sailing

After I sat down in the aisle seat, a middle-aged blonde woman decided to take the middle one. I gladly got up (because who wants to be stuck next to a weird old man or a screaming baby on a flight) and we struck up a little convo. She asked me what my sign was (Sagittarius) and a few other questions about my life and then launched into an in-depth analysis of my personality & future. I’m recording all of this here so that in the next few years I can determine whether she had accurate predictions/analysis.

First, my personality (this is all according to her):

• Pragmatic—I don’t understand when people can’t just take actions steps towards fixing things
• Outgoing with a large circle of acquaintances but only a small group of close friends
• Need and prefer quiet/isolation sometimes
• Would make a good life coach, not psychologist, because I tend to ask “what” rather than “why”
• I don’t get too overwhelmed except when I listen to other people because I take on their problems as my own
• Short fuse, opinionated (she said it’s hard to be a Sagittarius woman in this world…)
• Generous
• Intelligent
• Sometimes scatter-brained
• Restless if in one place
• I have a deeper sense of purpose—trying to figure out why I’m in this world, how I can make a difference
• If I write out a 5-yr plan, in 5 years I will have accomplished all of it and maybe even within 3 years

Now my future (this is where it gets good…):

• Something about Germany in my near future, either I or someone close to me will be there or connected to the country
• Going to grad school for a master’s sooner than I expect
• I’ll be able to see visions of sorts about my life
• Within the next 18 months, I will meet a man who will be an important relationship for me, maybe not a life partner, but at least a 3 year relationship. He’ll somehow be connected to the medical field (maybe clinical work in the field) but that connection won’t be obvious right away. He’ll be a little shy, taller than me (6”), somewhat thin, and either traveling or returning from some sort of work in another country. Potentially religious or super academic. When we meet I’ll be writing something down and look up and we’ll talk about whatever trip he was just on or is going on. 
• That relationship will be free of drama, we both will value each other for our orientation towards service and helping people.
• My life will be relatively uncomplicated
• I’ll travel a lot—probably to Europe next

really proud of all the people who ran the half-marathon today because all i did was wake up, eat Monell’s, come home, and sleep. 

just finished my last day of undergraduate classes EVER and it’s weird because school has been such a big part of my life for so long (and I still have 2.5 papers & an exam left to complete eek) but now (finally) sitting and listening and taking in information and other people’s thoughts are all over. but “learning is never over!!” you might protest and to that I will say that formalized, power-imbalanced, institutional, structural, $50,000/year learning is most definitely over for me for the near future. I’m ready for something new, whether that something is exploring my dreams or working a boring job or crying over my lack of job/direction or sleeping or cooking or being artsy. life is no longer linear, and I really don’t hate it. 

seventeen days ‘til that diploma. 

life feels really hard today

super thankful for this weekend for reminding me why I love vandy, nashville, myself (in a non-narcissistic, empowerment kind of way), midtown fellowship, gossip girl, technology (and phun photo edits), laughing, sleeping, lazy days, trivia, having a future, and spending way too much time with this crazy girl:

house of cards.

throwing a watermelon off a parking garage.

sleep.

party-hopping with ASBest friends from sophomore year.

stealing the goblet of fire.

so weird. so perfect.

GOOD MORNING WORLD