Growing Pains

Hello readers!

First off, apologies for being gone for so long; I just finished five weeks of biology (the bane of my existence) and when I wasn't sleeping, studying or catching up with friends for much-needed coffee, I was staring blankly at this screen....yeah, it was a tough month.

But it's over! Hallelujah!!!! For three weeks until fall semester arrives. Anyway, maybe it's entering into my senior year and not knowing where the past three years have gone, I realized it's time for me to grow up.

Now, you might say, "Victoria, haven't you already grown up? You have a job, pay your own cell phone bill, and cook four nights out of the week." And yes, I suppose that's pretty grown up. But there's a moment when it just hits you: I've got to stop this and actually GROW UP.

I think it hit me when I looked in my closet and realized I have nothing to wear, in the sense that I have a ton of t-shirts, mini-skirts and flirty dresses, but...pencil skirts? blouses? Nil. This, coupled with a look into my "virtual closet" (aka Pinterest) which consists mainly of office-appropriate outfits that also manage to be gorgeous, made me realize I have to grow out of the college student/ 21st century flower child wardrobe.

Senior year itself isn't a problem (two months from now I won't be saying this), mainly because creative writing majors don't have to write a thesis (the department figures that we'll be too busy writing literary essays and novellas). But in less than a year I'll be graduating. Then what?

The plan is get my masters in creative writing, go into teaching or journalism/Miranda Priestly's personal whipping girl while I work on my writing and then hit my big break at some point. Of course this is entirely hypothetical. And grad school alone means making a huge decision: wherever I decide to go - Bangor, Charlottesville, San Francisco - will make a huge impact on my life, and may even determine where I spend the rest of my life. That's just a little bit scary.

I guess the biggest thing I need right now is the support of my friends, just to let me know I'm not failing on life (big plans result in stress, and stress, yeah). And just focus on the positive; like in less than a year I'll have graduated! And I'm already starting to make serious plans for next summer, big plans. Will keep you posted :)

Any advice? Thoughts? Grad suggestions? Please comment!