'street fighting man'

rolling stones

apologies for the out of focus-ness!
I went for a barefoot walk today to capture the nice day, but as it was my last taekwondo testing, I felt the need to represent :)

this has truly been a week of CELEBRATION.
--200th blip
--one of my best friends here finished her senior research and today was her formal presentation [which I went to and was amazingly interesting; I want to read the whole thing], which means not only she is way less stressed, but I get her back from the 100 pages she's been slaving over :)
--after a LOT of talks with close friends, thinking, and negotiating, I sent in my contract for the summer. I talked with a good friend the other night about how hard it was to turn down a previous offer and take this one...but he was fabulously supportive. it was absurdly, literally difficult to drop that envelope in the mailbox, but yet I breathed a sigh of relief when I did.
--speaking of jobs, the fall is slowly starting to shape up....knock on wood, cross your fingers, and make a wish at 11:11, this is the first thing in awhile I've been incredibly passionate about.
--like I said above, last tkd test. two besties came to watch. will probably have a couple of bruises for the next few days, but I went all out, had people impressed [and maybe a little scared? haha] and so it's no concern to me!
--at 3:00 today, I finished my last college class. it's ALMOST sunken it. but not quite. oh wow.


so basically, I'm fighting.
I'm finding the bright side.
I'm pushing through.
I'm loving the ride.