Well, folks. It's been a while, hasn't it?
The intervening years since I left you all hanging have been, in a word, eventful. Let's see if I can sum them up.
I returned rather reluctantly to The Burg after some very hilarious travels to London and Florence. Stories I continue to tell include the time my friend Courtney carried all my worldly possessions on her back through the Underground, and the time I wore all of my clothing because my luggage weighed too much.
Upon arrival, I promptly contracted mono (yeah. seriously.) So, I spent a lot of junior year asleep. I'm told I also went to class. It wasn't the best year.
But then, senior year! Kicked it off with some rather ridiculous, poorly-planned, and at times completely stupid but also very fun Euorpean travels with my friend Becca, who'd been studying all spring in Valencia, Spain. Spent the rest of summer as a camp counselor in California - probably one of the most exciting and rewarding and challenging summers of my life.
I split the rest of my time at W&M pretty evenly 3 ways:
1a) Limping around on crutches for a semester after a camp-related MCL injury.
1b) Explaining that I broke this elbow ice skating, showing off my sweet scar, and bragging about my brand new metalwork. (These shenanigans earned me the nicknames "Gimpy," "Cripple," and "Broken Girl.")
2) poring over Middle English & Scots poetry and writing a 63 page thesis on the third floor of Swem.
3) Socializing and ahem, refining my taste for fine beers and liquors in the Green Leafe (one of three bars in Williamsburg. yes.)
Apparently that was a pretty okay balance, because the gave me this diploma thing in May, and told me that I couldn't come back anymore.
Which was honestly a little sad and scary for a few weeks.
BUT IT'S OKAY!
Because about 2 days ago, the University of St. Andrews informed me that I've been given an unconditional offer of place to complete an MLitt in Mediaeval English.
Translation: Christy Goes Abroad, Round 2.
Now, this version's going to be a little less silly, and a little more academic. Okay, well maybe just a little more academic because, who am I kidding? I'm still me. :) But I figured it might be a worthwhile thing to record my adventures as I set off on this new (very expensive, very nerdy) chapter of my life.
Cheers!
