Keepin' on.

Last night Kyle and I were discussing whether or not we will stay in our current apartment once our lease is up. We still have six months, but it does seem to be something worth thinking about. Come fall, I will be working, going to school and volunteering all in the same basic area. To there from our apartment is close to a 25 minute drive for me, one way. To a lot of people, I realize, that is nothing. However I live in a village with a population of 1200 and work in a city with a population of 60,000. There is no traffic jams or rush hours. It's just purely 25 minutes of driving, and I'm not sure if it'll be justified living 15 miles away from town any longer. Of course, I'll be making less money (I assume, if I have to work less while in school) and any apartment closer to the city will obviously be more expensive. But I am certainly not remaining in this place until 2012, so maybe I should just suck it up and go without. We'll see.

While a big part of me feels like I've really locked myself into something big for the next four years, another part of me wants to go crazy and experience as much as possible. I want to go so many places. Top destinations in my mind right now are: New York, Boston, Russia and Greece. I'd also like to visit D.C., but I don't know who would ever want to do that with me. I'm crossing my fingers for the NY/Boston trip around my birthday this year, but it's still very up in the air.

I love the midwest, but sometimes it makes me sleepy.