Update

Currently sipping some Harrod's Earl Grey tea--a taste I have not tasted in a while.

Things have grown pretty repetitive in Santa Barbara. Work has increasingly taken over my life, which is both good and bad for many reasons. I find that I spend most of my time at American Apparel and less time on campus, however, I'm working to restore the balance. I had grown to miss spending hours in library on the fourth floor balcony reading about history and watching the sunset, but I've been doing that more lately, which has been nice.

I've also decided to get my shit together for grad school. I've just lately realized that the time when I will be applying to grad schools is less than a year away, and I need to keep in the honors program, get more involved, work on departmental honors, and make sure that I'm guaranteed a spot in the senior honors thesis program next year. My future academic career depends on it.

Basically, I've been suffering from the strange problem of actually achieving my goals--which is good, obviously, but now I just have the problem of where to go next in some areas. I achieved a goal at work I had been working towards for a while, and despite work's taking over my life, I am still on track toward achieving my goals in school too. My goal was to get straight A's this quarter and so far, after Midterms, I have A's in all of my classes and I'm all caught up on my reading.

Certain other areas of my life that usually take a backseat are actually developing, for once and hopefully that keeps going well.

One other thing that I've noticed lately is how much I miss all of my friends back in Irvine and LA. It's getting increasingly difficult to travel back home for extended periods of time, and I'm finding that there still aren't many people here that can fill the friendship gap of what I once had back home. Not to mention, a few of the friends that seemed up to the task in Santa Barbara aren't even here right now.

Overall though everything's basically good. I'm complacent but feeling the need that I should be more stressed out, like I usually am. Hopefully things continue to go well. I just hope that I can see some of my friends soon. Santa Barbara is still kind of lonely.