1. sleep well.
2. eat well. grocery shop and stuff. and use multiple burners on the stove. and heck, maybe i'll even use the oven too.
3. feel a little more optimistic that Eric will break down and allow me to get a dog.
4. figure out where the end stopped and where the begining starts. i feel i'm in the middle of two very great things. for now still staring blankly at 'school' as it pulls out of the driveway and disappears down the road. i'm half delirious with happiness and partly feeling like i just lost a big chunk of my reason for existing. (nobody needs me to get make a project and write a paper about it? but why?)
5. start thinking about what i really care about. and what exactly i don't care about.
6. change my last name to bushaw. i know i keep promising to do this. but i really will. this is getting out of hand. i mean really.
7. make like a salmon and go back home.
8. finish reading the seven books i'm in the middle of right now. One of which I highly recommend: Pain: The Gift That Nobody Wants is a book written by Dr. Paul Brand about his work with leprosy patients. The man is my hero. This book is completely buried deep beneath heaps of readings lists, best sellers, classics, etc. I found it sort of by accident and it's proved to be one of the most compelling books I've ever read.
9. come up with some sort of quick, painless and vague statement to appease and reassure the masses when they ask "so, what do you plan to do now?"
10. be very nice to Eric while he graduates next semester because he was very nice to me while i generally acted like a crazy woman/fussy little baby during finals.
