Blogging Fail...Happy Fall

I had such great intentions. Then it's two months later and I wonder how I've only posted one thing and that wasn't even a proper post but only a description of what I should be posting. And now it's fall. I suppose that's life though, really. Saying you’re going to do something then getting around to it in a leisurely fashion and realizing the leaves are changing (well the light playing on the palm trees is a bit warmer and autumnal). Lately, I've been on top of my responsibilities like white on rice, this blog isn't necessarily a testament to that go-get-'em attitude of mine.

Since the official term (i.e. the beginning of my fourth and final year of university) began I have put together a comprehensive schedule of classes consisting of: Intermediate Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Survey of the Middle East, and Civilization of the High Middle Ages; I've organized a rough plan for the future, which at this point in life is a very big accomplishment, and going along with that theme i've already applied for four full time positions with accounting firms with a few more coming in the next couple weeks. I've assembled a business suit which makes me feel properly grown-up and rather smart. I finally turned in my official petition to double major, basically binding myself into a contract that says I will finish all of my degree requirements by the end of the year, they're very strict when you decide to work extra hard. Funny how that works. I've picked back up with tour guiding, lost my job with the music department (damn budget cuts!), began the process of becoming a volunteer at a local historical house/ranch and signed up to be a Global Intern with the study abroad office. Does that seem like a lot? I hope so. Because I've learned that I really just don't function properly if i'm idle and especially if i'm given too much free time.

This is the last year. The last opportunity I have to be in Santa Barbara with relative freedom of time and more importantly a free spirit (though I don't plan on losing that anytime in the future). I've been making new friends and reconnecting with old ones. I've gotten into a rhythm again after only a couple of backward flowing breakdowns. And to top it all off there's a fiddle festival in Goleta on Sunday that i'm just really excited to go to, isn't that just fantastic?!

Hopefully I'll be with you sooner than the two month hiatus that occurred last time but i'm making no promises as I'm feeling like it'll be a very busy autumn season!