...probably should have been diagnosed with ADHD

If you watched the video I posted on facebook, that title would make more sense.

Had I been born 10 years later, I would have had ADHD ... for sure!

Now that I'm about to graduate with two Master's degrees, I've been thinking back. I am definitely one of those people that makes 'really hard workers' cringe. In the time I've been here, not only have I taken extra units, but I learned Portuguese, taught myself how to play the guitar, been in a few dance performances, hung out A LOT, spent way too much time cooking for me and my friends, went on a fun trip in the middle of almost every quarter, took extra responsibility just for the love of planning....and.... I get as much sleep as I'm supposed to!

I think it proves two things:
most people who 'work really hard' are NEVER working as hard as they say
and, one really good, well thought out plan saves you HOURS upon HOURS of actual work time

what do you think?

Some things I love and will miss about SLO

Riding home from school on a cool night. Its fun.

SLO manages to have beautiful sunsets most days

Not ever worrying about safety

Some of the very important people in my life here

Small town friendliness

Fog rolling in

End of another era

School is ending, and though I'll be back in the fall, almost everyone I know here is going to be leaving!

Its hard to believe its been two years already. I am definitely ready to move on, but I will have about 6 to 9 months of moving around and stuff. SF for le working in the summer, SLO in the fall, some trip or back to work in SF after that?

Then I will be looking for a real job. Maybe I will move somewhere. Its hard to decide. I guess I will see what I get! I dunno, kinda wanna move back to europe...hmmm...big decisions....

The project that has taken up to much of my life since October is finally done! It is so ingrained in my head that I haven't fully comprehended this yet. I've never been such a large part of such a serious project.

I want to go and celebrate this finish so much, but I'm sooooooooo tired! So I'm going to sleep.

Moving back to the bay in a couple weeks...going to England in September....I'm excited for a nice change of pace.

Once a foreigner, always a foreigner

This is something I've felt since I moved back to the US, I just don't fit in. I pretend I do, people don't notice, but I just feel like such a foreigner.

Its the same feeling as when you are a foreigner, people talk about stuff and you don't understand, but because all of the non-foreigners understand, they assume you do to.

Once you cross that boundary, and who knows when it is, you can't go back. You come to a place where you are never content to stay in one country - which is an expensive habit - and you really only feel a connection with other people like you.

Today in class, one of my professors who has moved around a lot said it best -
Once a foreigner, always a foreigner.

Thank God I'm not the only person who feels this way.

Last night was so fun. I made a bunch of food and sangria, we ate and drank and danced! Then decided to go out to the bars.

I have been having fun lately. Teaching 15 minute dance lessons in my living room. Cooking a lot of good stuff! Listening to good music! And trying not so hard this quarter to keep up with my work!

Erin was not made for spring quarter - my brain shuts off after spring break!

Mistakes

People seem to get so angry at mistakes but I think they are the most necessary part of life.

I like to think of mistakes as recalibration. We keep making mistakes, and recalibrating until finally we have the right calibration and we are successful!