i feel like i keep abandoning deviantart. >_< i'm sorry, guys. i'll try to be a little more committed this summer, i promise. especially since i found a renewed inspiration in my life. (: i'll update on that a little bit later in this entry, though.

so, as if june 27th 2009, i am an official high school graduate. and i am currently enrolled in massachusetts college of liberal arts in north adams, massachusetts. and i cannot be more ecstatic. (: i went to orientation last week and spent a night in the dorms to get a feel for what life would be like. i created my schedule. i also met a lot of new people, which made the experience 30,953,253 times better. i must have stayed up until 3 am talking to a few people, it was great. i felt as if i had met them all before, everything was so... familiar. comfortable. as if i knew them already or had known them in a past life or something. either way, it made me REALLY excited for the fall. i cannot wait to move out of this house in new york and move to the mountains. i need that in my life. ^_^

speaking of massachusetts, i took A LOT of pictures and i submitted them to my photography account (~xx-ttainted), so check them out. i have massachusetts pictures up there as well as pictures of when i went to the beach with joe, which came out pretty nice as well. okay, enough of my self-promotion...

back to my original train of thought... even though i've been drifting away from a lot of people in my life, it's only brought me closer to the ones who haven't gone away yet. even though i realize it's only a few select people: my two best friends, my boyfriend, and a few stragglers here and there. but for some reason, i'm not too worried about it. i've never been close to many people. the only person that i feel i'll truly miss is my boyfriend because he's staying local while i'll be moving 300 miles away. that's an entirely different story, though...

yeah, i have a boyfriend now. xD surprised? i definitely am. we started dating in may and today is actually our one month anniversary. he's in florida right now for a diabetes convention so we can't be together on our anniversary, which is a bummer, but at least it'll make next week so much more sweeter. ;D no pun intended. but i have to admit... he really inspires me. over the past few months, i haven't had any inspiration or motivation to write anything, but ever since we started dating, he just makes my head spin. his philosophies on life, his past, his way of thinking, just the way we connect, it gives me faith in the spiritual side of myself, and although i haven't exactly been writing like a madwoman yet, the ideas are still spiraling in my head. where once there was nothing, there's something. a small snippet of a poem, a piece of prose, or just an artistic image. i started doodling something the other day and it turned into a huge collage of buddha's and yin yang's and phoenixes and peace signs and trees. because that's what we are.

maybe one of these days this week, i'll finish one of my pieces and post it here for you guys. because this inspiration is unbelievable. (:

other things happening in my life... i have my road test scheduled for next week. i don't really like driving, so i haven't practiced at all, so i doubt i'll pass. only because i haven't parallel parked in months. i know i need my license eventually, but for now i'm not really too motivated. even though it would be nice to be able to drive myself places. but whatever.

but enough about me. tell me about your summer so far. what have you done? what do you have planned?