OMG! It's my last semester of undergrad! That's so weird. My classes this semester are:

1) Popular Culture in Early Modern England
2) The New Testament
3) French
4) Capstone Seminar (for my Communication major)
5) Magazines in America

So far they all seem pretty good. But I have to admit that a lot of my focus right now is going towards preparing for Life After Graduation.

Anyway, yesterday my roommate, Catelyn and I went to this really cool glassblowing studio called Dragonfire. Here are some pictures from the demo:

Oh that? Um, that's just MOLTEN GLASS being twisted around a piece of slightly less molten glass. Let's take a closer look.

See?

The best part was watching them make a conch shell. It was beautiful and amazingly realistic. I didn't get a good picture of the final result of this one, but here's another that was made earlier:

So that was a fun way to spend an afternoon.

I would like to close this entry with a quote from my former roommate, Stacey, who I am chatting with online at the moment. Stacey is a year older than me and currently in law school, and therefore full of sagely wisdom. I was freaking out to her about how/when/what to do after I graduate. "Travel? Job? Grad school eventually? I'd love to travel, but I'd need money, which I can only get from working. (Or, I guess, robbing a bank?) But if I really want to travel for a long period of time (months), then I should do it before I get a job. Or maybe just get a temp job for a few months to save up and then go to travel? And then get a real job? What should I do?" I went on like this for a while, and then Stacey said:

"Well, I don't know, life isn't a formula. You can do it anyway you want."

Which made me stop and reconsider everything. I think I had been operating on the assumption that there was a single Right Way to go about planning everything after graduation, and that it was up to me to figure this way out. But it doesn't work like that.

Back to homework! Although there's an adaption of Northanger Abbey on TV right now...