Auld Lang Syne

We rang in the new year with style in St Paul this year. 2009 went fast and full without any major milestones. I have plans to make 2010 a fantastic year but I'm not sure if any dreams will become reality in the next twelve months. Full time employment? Travelling to Africa and Europe? Moving to Portland, buying a house? Maybe those should move from the 2010 file to the sometime-between-now-and-2015 file. We'll see.

Atleast college graduation is (almost) garaunteed. I'm four months, 4800 miles of commuting, and one killer research paper away from a degree in a field I don't want to work in. But here's to being licensed and eligible for a real job, with opportunities in every direction (though we're only interested in those West of here). Happy year of new adventures, new beginnings, new faces and most likely new places. Here's to new dreams and new accomplishments. Bring it on, 2010.

One way flights don't turn around

I have an obsession and fascination with traveling. I love to travel. Not only that but I check airline rates for trips I'm not planning on taking as a hobby. Today I found a flight to San Francisco for $198. It was a roundtrip ticket, but the flights coming back were sold out. Somehow this didn't bother me. I could leave tomorrow for Vienna for $725, but add on the fees and it's about $1100. Still not bad for showing up in Austria by 9am Wednesday morning. Trips to Spain are double what I paid in June, and as it is, my Spanish hostess is on a plane back to the states tomorrow morning. What starts as an afternoon with no homework can quickly progress into an itch to jet off to somewhere new. Now I'm dreamin' of dreamier places.