Bah Humbug!

Goodness gracious it's been six months since I've written on here.

SIX MONTHS!!!!!

I can't believe it's almost Christmas. Basically I'm just going to give an update. Probably won't be funny, but whatever.

I'm so burned out it's not even funny. I haven't slept well at all this year, I just can't get get motivated, I don't want to do anything and basically I've turned into a giant bump.

Rugby season kicked our ass this year. WE had a ton of games and though we did well, it was just too long.

I don't want to do grad school anymore, but I only have one semester left. So I'll stick with it.

I had one big adventure this semester. I went to Washington DC for a week. I got to visit Antietam, Monocacy, and part of the C&O Canal. I visited a ton of parks in Washington proper and even went so far as to walk from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington. I even went inside Arlington House, which is something I'd never done before. I walked around the cemetery. I could spend a day there, but didn't have the time. Arlington is an incredible experience and I really do suggest that everyone visit some day.

I even got to catch up with my pal Thursday and her fiance. We went to the rennaissance festival. No big puchases, but it wasn't for a lack of trying.

The last part of my week to myself (because I did travel by myself) was three days down where this whole place began. Of course, in road tripping by myself, I was able to stop at Fredericksburg and see that battlefield. It was tempting to stop at Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania and the Wilderness, but I'm glad I didn't. WIlliamsburg does programs throughout the day and I got to see the afternoon set. I even had an evening program. Then I went to Jamestown. I had visited Jamestown settlement before as a kid, but knew it wasn't the exact site of the original colony. They used to tell you that the colony was out in the middle of the Chesapeake somewhere. But that was a lie. They found it a few years back, and so I made a trip to Historic Jamestowne, which is where our country began 400 years ago. I highly recommend Historic Jamestowne. THe new archeararium or whatever it is was awesome, filled with all the artifacts they've found from the original colony. I also spent time at Yorktown. As battlefields go, it's different because after 200+ years, the earthworks, many of them original, are still visible. History overlaps so much in this place. Right between two lines of earthworks, there is a Civil War cemetery. Even at Jamestown, the evidence of Confederate Earthworks are still visible, only a stones throw from the wall of the original settlement. Williamsburg and its streets were the site of conflict during the Civil War, even though we really only associate it with the Revolution.

Now Williamsburg, there's a fun place to be. Williamsburg is like Disney Land on History. They have microphones on some of the cast members for the afternoon programs. You can view the old houses, the brickyard, the cobblers, the cabinetmakers....everything just as it was 200 years ago. And who can pass up sugar cookies and rootbeer? I even went in to one of the taverns for dinner one night and treated myself to Welsh Rarebit. I was a happy camper.

The drive home might have been long, but I needed the break. I needed the distance from school and from the job and from rugby. I'd love to take some time off to just go travel for a month or two, to visit the places I've always wanted to go, or to return to. But that won't happen. I'm feeling a lot of pressure from the parentals to get a full time job because Matt's home now. I can't be stupid or have fun anymore. It's going to be time for me to knuckle down, and I'm just not 100% sure I can.

I can't even concentrate to work on the last two projects for my last class this week.

Speaking of, I better get cracking......