where has the time gone?

Somehow this semester has disappeared.

It feels like we just started classes, like I've barely seen some people I usually see LOTS of.

BUT

Only 3 days of classes left. 

Then three-ish days of finals.

Then
...

CHRISTMAS BREAK!!

Plans for Christmas Break

*Take Buster Brown on walks at least three times a week

*Work both jobs and save monies

*Eat better. Not necessarily less, but better.

*Clean & De-Junk my room, and organize for next semester.

*Watch Lots of Movies
*Drink Lots of Hot Chocolate (with Baileys, when appropriate)

*GO TO DISNEYLAND!!!

*Be Merry.
*Turn 24

Xanadu closed 10 days ago. And it feels like it was a beautiful dream that I got to live in for the semester. Life after Xanadu is much less exciting, much less joyous, much less glittery. But, I was exhausted after that run. Completely wiped. I think we all were. And it was nice to have a Thanksgiving Break to catch up on my sleep.

Thanksgiving was lovely. Much time spent at my mother's house with good food, good family, good couches, good TV, good movies, good bed. I got to sleep in my mother's big California King bed for 4 nights straight, and it was divine. My back has not adjusted back to my little bed at my house, and i'm definitely feeling it.

With the semester almost over I'm looking back at how much has changed, and I'm amazed at everything that's happened in what seems to be such a short amount of time:
* I've had 2 or 3 major actor/singer breakthrough moments. *I've stayed single, and remarkably crush free, for the entire semester. *I've grown close to SO many people in the department who I can't believe I've lived without.* I've completed (and received an A) on an Analysis of a play, and have been directing actors with what I feel is some pretty decent success.* I've stayed on the positive end of my bank account. *I've managed my money INCREDIBLY well for eating out as much as I have. *I was majorly injured for probably 75% of the semester, but I pulled through it and did a three week run of a VERY physical show. *I got cast in a show at Weber, not once, but twice (SO EXCITED FOR CRADLE!)

Things I never realized could happen in only 3.5 months. SO MANY THINGS. How everything (all of those things and more) fit into just one semester, I'll never know. But they did. And it was insane, and tough, and exhausting, and liberating, and exciting, and fun, and fast. And I loved it.

Sometimes (alot lately, actually) I start to get the winter blues. I've never had a good relationship with the winter months, and this year is no exception. BUT When i remember everything good that I've lived through this past semester, and how much I've grown and learned, It makes things a bit more bearable. It reminds me that I'm going to be okay. That even when work and heartache and loneliness and stress start getting to me, everything will be alright.