Update

I haven't written much in the past while, mostly because I've been so busy with life.  That's a good thing, right?  I've needed that.  Sometimes I feel like the only people who have successful blogs are the only ones who lack enough life to spend that much time on the computer.  Maybe I'm wrong.

But to be honest, I've been spending more time working on my other, most recent blog, ghanaspeaks.  It's pretty cool, I'm headed to Ghana this fall for a field studies project that I've been wanting to do for... oh... about eight months now.  So I'm really still adjusting to the fact that it's actually happening.  My life has been changing in some pretty phenomenal ways, and mostly because of the way I've come to view the world, myself, and others.  It's crazy what a short month can do for the psyche.

I'm still in school, taking spring (and, unfortunately, summer) classes until I leave in the fall, so that I can prepare myself as much as possible for what lies ahead.  I'm currently in a field studies prep class, which has become one of the greatest things I've done in a while, as well the a freshman writing class. Again.  Lame, I know, but I have to pay the price for sleeping in through the final the first time around.  For summer, I'm planning on taking an anthropology course as well as Psych 210, human development of psychology.  Anthropology for the exposure to studies of culture and such, the psychology to help in my research.

I'll be researching, as you may read on my field studies blog, cross-cultural differences in the conception of pain.  I'm not sure if I want to do that from psychological, emotional, or physiological, but either way, it'll help to know more what I'm talking about, and get more exposure to data analysis and research methods.

For how rushed this whole process has been, and how fast my plans have changed, I'm surprisingly calm.  I'd like to thing that I'm getting better at adjusting, and maybe at being away from home, too.  Don't get me wrong, I miss it like crazy, but I think I'm getting better at ignoring that most of the time.  Nevermind that I may or may not call my mother almost every day.  I like her, okay?

Well, this was genuinely pleasant.  But it's way too nice outside to keep at it.