I'm so sorry for not writing recently! I've been too busy doing.... nothing. That's right- nothing. Finals are done, school is out, and all I've wanted this semester was to have a few days to myself to do NOTHING.

Anyway, I am quite excited, because I get to go home tomorrow. I haven't seen my family for about a month and a half, and I cannot possibly put into words how much I miss them. Lately, I've really been coming to appreciate how great my family is, and how much they mean to me. I would be irreconcilably despondent if anything were to happen to them. And I've also found that I've become increasingly protective of them. Not that there have been many threats made to them recently, but I've really got my guard up there. I guess I've just finally made it to that point in my life where I'm thankful for everything that my parents have done and sacrificed for me. I wouldn't be the person I am today without them. *gives silent, heartfelt gratitude to parents and family*

Okay, next paragraph: my life here at school is insane. I'm incredibly out of money, because I decided to go with one of my friends to the mall after we sold our textbooks back to the bookstore. Oops. We went to Hot Topic to buy discounted Harry Potter shirts. I got a shirt, and jacket, a Captain Jack Sparrow poster *be still my heart*, a few pins, and *God bless them* the new Rammstein CD. Its quite possibly the greatest thing I've ever heard in my life. I was talking to my German professor about it, and even she is probably going to go buy it. Insert creative segue here...

For no reason at all, I have to decided to give you a list of my favorite classical composers, in no particular order:

Tchaikovsky, J.S. Bach, Smetana, Grieg, Wagner, Bruckner, Brahms, Berlioz, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Liszt, Wieniawski, Sarasate, Sibelius, Bruch, Vitali, Corelli, Telemann, Glazunov, Saint-Saens, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, RVW, Holst, and John Williams (who is essentially, I have decided, a hybrid of Holst, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky). Isn't that interesting...

Auf Wiedersehen.