YES!!!

I GOT INTO GRAD SCHOOL!!!

I got into grad school, I got into grad school.  Pennsylvania here I come.  Now I just have to found out how much financial aid is going to give me and do the discount essay.

Thanks to Kris10, I am sure that is was her editing that got me in.  YAY, I am leaving Wilkes!!! 

And Away it Goes!

So, I did it today.  I sent in everything needed for grad school.  The application, a 10 page art paper, my portfolio, resume, and transcripts.  (Thanks for all the editing Kris10!!!)  It is all on it's way, zipping through the mail services to PA.  I still have an essay to write, one of those bullshit ones:  Who would I invite to dinner and why things.  It will not determine anything to do with acceptance, but it will give me a discount.  A much needed discount since this is all on me.

I am not worried necessarily, just anxious about the road ahead.  Grad school is going to be hard, I know this.  Once I get in I will need to find a place to live, and then move.  God I hate moving!  Granted some of my stuff has remained in boxes from the last move from Asheville to Wilkes, but I will still have to get all of my crap to PA.  But I am getting ahead of myself.  The first step is that acceptance letter, and then loans.  Yay! for being in debt!

Wilkes is the same- small and boring.  Still no job, so I will be working with my Dad in April.  Building cabinets somewhere.  I am looking foreword to spending that time with him, and the money will be pretty good.  But that's it. 

I have decided to brake up the monotony of my school-less life with making myself think that I am doing a show.  And since for every show you have to have a theme, I am starting to try and think through some of the stuff floating around in my head.  It is harder working here, no friends to suffer through modeling, no teachers breathing down my neck, so it will probably be some kind of self-exploration/ self-portrait kind of thing.  We shall see!  So expect some writings on that.  It helps with my process to write about it, and this is a blog.

Here's to inspiration!

On the Road Again

I am a little tired of driving.  But it was worth it to learn that I am pretty much in Grad school.  But I am still not going to count my chickens before they hatch.  As Meg said, I am worrying so that I don't have to worry.  

I am in Pennsylvania right now, staying with a much missed Kristen.  Tomorrow we are vegging together, not that I have anything to veg about, but it was what we do and I miss it.  Will do a better update soon.  Sorry that I have been so MIA lately, but nothing has really changed.  This trip will get better attention later.  

Go Griffins!

This weekend was a blast, for the most part anyways.  I went with Trevor to Pennsylvania to visit Seton Hill University in Greensburg and Kristen in Clarion.  The drive up was long, and Trevor had some freak outs.

Clarion is in western PA and out in the middle of nowhere, but considering that I grew up out in the middle of nowhere that was not a big deal.  But Trevor lost it when we were on this little highway at night.  I think that he really believed that we were going to die.  It was completely irrational.  But drama and Trevor tend go hand in hand.  I love you Trevor!

But getting to see Kristen was great.  I have missed her so much.  I did not realize how much until I get to see her again.  And then we got there just in time to watch Supernatural together, just like old times.  There was girl talk, sharing, laughing, junk food and mindless television.  Just like last year, and the three years prior to that.  

Granted, Clarion is smaller than Wilkesboro, but it is cute, quaint, and charming.  I loved it.  And then there was my school.  It was WONDERFUL.  I had my doubts, it is a Catholic Liberal Arts University and that scares me a little, hell it scared me a lot.  But I was reassured over and over that it Catholic in history more than anything now.  

It is a 200 acre campus on top of a hill and surrounded by trees and grass.  The main buildings were built in 1839, and the campus just screamed home to me.  The center of the campus has joined the building together with a bunch of corridors, and it made me feel like I was in a castle.  And I know how lame this sounds, but I felt I was walking in Hogwarts.  I am going to a school that reminds me of Harry Potter.  

This is the Maura Hall, which is home to the art studios, granted they are exiled  to the basement, but that is normal, we tend to scare people.

The center of the campus.  You can see the connecting halls.

Then I got to talk to a current art therapy student, and she showed me the art therapy room.  And my heart soared when I saw that the walls were decorated with Buddhist spiritual flags.  No cross or Jesus, not one single catholic relic in sight.  She was informative and I feel good about this program.  I still have questions, but they will be answered at some point.

Then I spent the rest of the weekend with Kristen.  We ate lots of food and watched TV.  Kristen and I would stay up late talking and I felt like nothing had changed, that the last 3 months apart had never happened.  And that lets me know that this friendship will last, it will stand the test of time.

I got back to Asheville early this morning and then went to class.  It was hard to leave Kristen, not as painful as when she left, but it still hurt.  I feel the most at home with her, Aly, Amanda and my parents.  They are my girls, my soul-mates.  But it is nice to know where is lives, to have seen her haunted building (Super exciting!) and know that she will only be less than 2 hours from me in Greensburg.  

I know where I am want to go to GRAD SCHOOL!  And I actually WANT to go there.