Greetings from Athens (Again)

Well, I'm back in Athens.

I've been here for about a week now. It's nice to be back in the groove of things after spending most of my Christmas Break sleeping on a couch. Classes aren't too bad. News Writing, New Media Production, and two absolutely thrilling History classes. Electives. Bleh. It's a pretty straightforward goal this semester: B average. All A's would be nice, but I can't shoot for the highest stars.

It seems that the glamour of a new semester has worn off. It wasn't ever really there. I guess that's due in part with the fact that I've been doing this for four years now (no, I'm not graduating just yet). It has almost become routine at this point to assume that I'll be in school and just taking one class after another for most of the year.

Not going to lie, school is boring, and I want it to be over soon. Not complaining about the classes itself, they're fine. I suppose the desire of wanting to get out and get on with my life is slowly crawling on me. It's been fun being young, and it's been nothing short of a privilege to have the college experience I've had. Not everyone gets to attend a top-shelf J-school at a nationally-acknowledged university.

But now, at the old-man age of 21, I want to move forward. Now that I'm a legal liquid consumer, the glitz and glam of alcohol consumption has diminished, and now I see a beer as a refreshing beverage and nothing else. Parties are still fun, but not the hullabaloo of college it once was. Call me crazy, or just call me...grown up?

I'm a more relaxed person than I used to be. I don't mind it at all. I used to get angry too much. Now I barely get angry at all, at least with others. I've become more tolerant of the hardships in life. I'm coming to discover that things could be a lot worse. They're not really even that bad anyway; I have it pretty well right now.

If all goes well this year, I'll get to do some traveling. A trip planned with my parents in the summer, and another small trip with The Lady once her dad gives us the green light to head out. Change of scenery will be very much welcomed.

At least for a temporary amount of time. I still have too much here to leave behind just yet. Not that I had contemplated any concrete departing plans anyway.

In the meantime, I continue to just paddle along the ebb and flow of Athens. There's still work to be done.

Out,

Mitch