348 days, 1 hour, 7 minutes

It's been a quite night and I'm not going out tonight, so I figured now's a good a time as any to catch up with you nice people. Unrelated, American Sniper is an outstanding film, I highly recommend  it.

So it's been ten days since my last post and this is the first since I arrived back in Richmond, so that's your land mark on my time line.

My Brother and 10+ of my close friends are headed to their semi-formal dance, I only went to 2 over my Abbey career so I wasn't really sold on the whole thing, but I hope they all have a good time and make good decisions, you know who you are (Cough, Claire, Cough). My other friend had her first college musical theater audition today as well out in West-Nowhere PA (Pittsburgh) so I was sending her good vibes all day too.

New Year, New Semester, same me.

That was my thought on the flight back to Richmond a week ago Sunday. In the last 7 days I've discovered some acceptations to that.

1. It's not really a new year because I always measure things by school years, so there's that.

2. The Semester thing is totally foreign to me coming from the Abbey so I'm trying to treat this semester the same as the old one, with respect and diligence and try my darnedest to do well.

3. Winter break was great for 2 big reasons: A, I got to see everyone and B, I got to leave again.

Now let me elaborate on point 3. The first time I left I had a nagging feeling of incompleteness for a while, I needed to call and text constantly to keep in the loop of what was going on back home. Coming back a second time, I find a lack of desire to do the same things, I feel like I don't rely on it as much anyways. Don't get me wrong, not like I hate anyone now but it's interesting to have this space from people. There's a lot of time to reflect on. So after 7 days back home I can say that With the new semester and new year there will be a new me. I've gone to the gym 5 of the last 6 days and am hoping that that isn't a once in a blue moon thing. I've updated my blog at the end of the week like I hope to do for a while longer, so I don't keep myself too far or too close from y'all. And I've looked at 3 text messages without responding, something I hope helps the new me get headed in the right direction. I've also started writing music again, more lyrics than melody, but I still count it.

It's 10:53 on 1/17/15 which gives me about 348 days, 1 hour, 7 minutes until I ring in 2016 at a party with all of my friends, in that time I hope to change who I am for the better, and I'm holding myself to this. A year from today I'm going to write a post in response to this post. Hopefully a year from now I'll have so better stories to share with y'all.

Until then I'll be around.
Don't be a stranger.