Here, Home, Homer

So much has changed in the past few months that I can hardly wrap my mind around it all. I no longer:
Am a student.
Have health insurance.
Get my Moonlights at my beck and call.
Find any thrill in going to the bars.
Write papers (well, I didn't do much of that this year anyway).

Yet here I am, still in my house sitting at my computer with nothing in my room packed up. It would all make more sense if I was out of this town and could deal with all the changes head-on but that will have to wait a couple more weeks. I have some business to take care of here, then it's home, then it's Homer! Alaska, that is. I thought that going to college for four years would satisfy my need to get out into the world but I am not certain that it has. I'll be living and working at a little inn on the Kachemak Bay. The ocean has never really done it for my but my heart has always belonged in the mountains.
I guess this will do:



















I'll be working a lot but I hope to find time to take in the beautiful scenery and amazing art culture of the area. I have a few other goals for myself for the summer too.

Anna's To Do List
*Finish my leisure book that I've been "reading" since January
*Hike my butt off, quite literally
*Relearn how to ride a bike (I'm pretty sure it is something you can forget)
*Find a job (in Minnesota!)
*Kayak for the first time
*Write a short story
*Have some long conversations with the most important Man in my life
*Get away from all the other men
*Make money
*See a moose and a whale
*Avoid bears
*Meet new people
*Explore watercolors
*Draw everything I see
*Soak in the beauty
*Get the need to get away out of my system, for the most part
*Come home

Oh, and update my blog too. Because I haven't posted anything from this semester, I'll leave you with a quick update. I absolutely love MSN's "The Week in Pictures." Here is my Semester in Pictures: