Oh What A Day

Look! I promised to update more frequently, and I am! Woohoo!

The past 24 hours has been quite a whirlwind- I am finally starting to have work academically, and last night was a bit of a wake-up call. I didn't have reading lists for my classes until recently, and last night I realized that today I had a seminar that required me to be able to discuss three different plays! Remember when I was excited about reading more plays? Me too... I didn't really remember it last night, though. I read Dancing at Lughnasa and Philadelphia, Here I Come by Brian Friel, who is one of my alltime favorite playwrights, as well as Bailegangaire (you try to pronounce that one... bet you ten bucks you'll butcher it just as badly as I did) by Tom Murphy. I enjoyed reading them, but wished I had been given some advance notice so that I could have taken my time with them and really allowed them to sink in. I now have reading lists for everything and have made a nice schedule for myself so that doesn't happen again! I'll be spending a good part of the weekend in the library to work ahead, so that when I want to travel on weekends it won't mean that I'm slacking on my work.

Speaking of traveling... I have plans! So far I know for sure when I'm going to Oxford, Belfast, London, and Paris, as well Brussels and Namur, Belgium, to visit where St. Julie Billiart was from (who founded the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, who are affiliated with my high school!) with a bunch of friends from ND. Planning trips certainly made me realize how quickly time here will fly, and I'm very excited to travel. Like I said, I'll be here for this weekend to get everything together (and mayybeee go see The Field at the Olympia Theatre, which I've heard is phenomenal) so I'll be more organized for the following weekends.

Short post for now... I seem to be using blogging as a means of procrastination. I have lots of reading to do! I am going to a Ceili tonight (traditional Irish music and dance!) with my orientation group, which I'm really excited about, but also have a lot of work to get done, so I don't think I'll be able to stay for very long unfortunately. For those of you on the east coast, stay warm and enjoy your snow days! And root for Princeton to have one... my mom has yet to have a day off for snow! That's no fun!

Love and Prayers,
Julia