Anna · McD

Well I have two and a half weeks remaining on this continent before I leave. I went to the CRAVE last night for the first time in months, only second time this year. It was really fun, great to see old friends again. Some things just don't change much. I don't think that's bad, though.
I've been working a lot and stressing too much about that and money and leaving all my friends and missing out on a whole year of what's going on in their lives. Now I know that I can email them but it won't be the same. I'm afraid I'll come back and I'll meet up with some of them and so much will have happened that neither of us could really express or explain and that I'll never be able to recover that piece of our friendship that would've been there had I stayed here. But I've never really wanted to stay here anyway so I guess it's inevitable.

I guess this is growing up and moving away.



I've really been blessed in life and I feel undeserving. I know that I do work somewhat hard but I haven't been faced with too many overwhelming circumstances. Nothing beyond what we all face.

I'm pretty sick these days. I'll have these spells of intense pain everywhere and it'll last for about an hour and there's nothing I can do except lie there and cry until I fall asleep. I hope it doesn't happen at work today. That would suck. My parents won't be in town to pick me up if it does happen. Oh well, not much I can do. I just want to get better before I leave. And Mark will be here again this weekend. I think I may be addicted to him.

We walked a puppy and it was wonderful:

Hellooo people. So I'm going to leave a real post now. I've been doing a lot of working lately, and I have two jobs. But my weekends are free so that's cool! I'm leaving for London on the 5th of September and coming back in April, I think. I'm excited and nervous and sad about it all at the same time. I'm really going to miss you people. And California, and Pepperdine, and Ventura and stupid little things that are so familiar.
Well on Monday I'll be nineteen, and that's pretty exciting. I don't really know what I want for my birthday. Some mace and a dagger would be nice, to keep me safe in London, but I have no idea where one would get such things. Other than that I just want to be around my friends and have a good time. And I want a pony.
I'll be getting a digital camera soon! I'm excited about that. I'll be taking bazillions of pictures in my travels over the next year. You don't even know.
Oh, and just a note: we never actually took Mandie to the Tar Pits. It was actually Disneyland. Sometimes I mix the two up. Whoops.





Mandie disapproves of Tim and the Tar Pits. Both are stinky.


Yay Mandie surprise we love you!!


She was happy.


Anyway, life has been pretty great. I hung out with Mark and my family for four days and that was just incredible. Really really weird and horrible at times, but just being with all my loved ones was very nice for me. I'll be seeing Mark again in a little over a week.
Well I brought my Sociology book and my French workbook so I'm going to do some reading. Yay!