Finals are over! Now what do I do?

I finished with finals today! It was freeing, but now it just feels so strange. Everyone is just studying downstairs. I've forgotten how boring I've been this last week. I spent my afternoon waiting in the music building for a conference that got cancelled, and then reading/waiting/napping in Starbucks for a dinner that didn't happen. This was completely fine, but it's been such a strange day in which not much happened.

Okay, so the weather was gorgeous. And we got to have a picnic which was wonderful. And I'm reading Gilead which a friend suggested I read, and I'm rather enjoying it. And my copy of Unseen Academicals came in the mail from Amazon. I accidentally ordered the British edition! How great is that? I'm quite stoked. I also turned in my application and deposit for the Baylor in Oxford program this summer. I get to take Oxford Christians in Oxford. hehe... this is what I've been wanting my whole life! I also met the two of the professors that are going on the trip. Dr. Hanks told me that if I dressed like I did today, he would love to walk the streets of Oxford with me. I guess I did look a bit eccentric today with a bright, red, and poofy red halter dress over a ruffly blue plaid dress, with knee high argyle socks, converse with pink and green van shoelaces, and a giant blue striped floppy sun hat. The last day of finals with the sun outside deserves a funky outfit.

I also got to watch Sabrina with a good friend who also finished her final! She had never seen it before. I just love that movie. Audrey Hepburn manages to have all the class in the world while still demonstrating the real emotions of teenage angst and lost love. She's so real and melodramatic that it's hilarious, but you love her all the more because of it. Everyone has hidden in some tree overlooking some indoor tennis court in her life. Everyone has longed for someone that doesn't even know she exists. But Sabrina takes that invisible persona, changes her song from the overly glamourous and garish "Isn't it Romantic?" to the love song of an accordion off the streets of Parish, and takes Long Island by storm by her effervescent style, grace, and light heart. Like Linus Larrabee says, "You've been a breath of fresh air coming through this stuffy old house." What a wonderful movie. I think it's my favorite, at least for today.

I also got to watch some Big Bang Theory.

So, today was more relaxing and delightful than I thought it was now that I look at in retrospect. I just feel a little bit out of place not studying or practicing any more. But I don't have anything to practice, and I have nothing to study. I'll get back into a regular routine once I get back into the house, but this is my first day to relax, and it has been good, even if a bit slow. Thank you, internet for absorbing my boring rants about my day.

I can go to sleep now with no worry about the following day.

Instead of feeling weird about this, I'm going to try to enjoy this. But I love schedules and knowing what is going to happen, and then those plans and schedules going according to plan. So, my room is a total disaster right now. But it doesn't mean that my life can't be organized, even if I was late to rehearsal last week and forgot my music for the performance...

But finals are over. I have a fresh, clean plate that no mold from my dorm can attack. I swear, mold grows so much faster in here than in real life. We had to throw away our fridges. I am now afraid of tiny fridges. And I have not eaten a banana in 3 months. That's just not right. I've had at least a banana every week if not every day for my entire life. My nick name in elementary school was Janna Banana. I would hit Zach on the head with the eraser of my pencil because he would chant it and get the whole class to chime in.

So, basically, I'm a hypocrite when it comes to organization.

Good night, world!