Florence and the Machine - Howl
Mine and Mary’s favorite line “drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart.”

Obviously, with two weeks left, I am thinking of everything I’ll do and everywhere I’ll go when I get home. My anticipation is almost overflowing. I will have so many books at my disposal. I will have my gym, my CAR. My favorite restaurants. My friends, not fleeting or fickle. My life back. I’m hiking the AT with the Venture Crew for a week exactly one month from today. I can’t wait to whip my butt into backpacking shape. Garden. Read in the hammock that I will buy. Clean. Pet my cat. Hug my parents. Have my hair played with. Force my friends and family into playing board games with me. Make a scrapbook of Scotland. Go to Goodwill. Shop for my apartment at His House and consignment stores and IKEA! Break into a sweat as soon as I leave my house. Get constantly exasperated with my guys and be forced into playing magic or some other ridiculous game by those guys. Meet people? Apply to Booksurge, basically beg them to give me my perfect job. Go back to school and walk to class (or bike, maybe? idk) and go to strom and play racquetball or climb or just work out and swim in my apartment’s pool. Watch the fourteen million movies that my family owns but we have not yet watched. I’m giving up love stories in books and movies for the whole month of July, which should be fun. Also going to try to volunteer at Folkmoot, since they don’t want to hire me. Go camping with friends. See off Adam to his exciting new life. See how much Madeline has grown.Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the zoo.

I can’t wait. Seriously. These two weeks are going to go by so slowly, but they will be filled with bittersweet goodbyes and last minute sightseeing, so they won’t be completely empty. But Scotland? I loved it, but it’s time to go. I’ll come back someday and see the rest of Skye and hike the West Highland Way and go places in the highlands that I didn’t get to go.

I do wish I’d traveled more and bought less. But it’s been a good experience, all in all, and I’m glad I did it.

-La