Some thoughts and daydreams

Oops. Perhaps I should write something first before I blindly press enter and have it published. Dur.

I've been thinking alot about the future lately. Not like grand future-of-the-world kind of things, but my future for a year or two after college.

I think I'm going to leave Texas for a bit in the five years after I get my bachelors. I say five because I might work here for a year or two before I go get my masters. If I even do get my masters-it all depends.

I've said for years that I am going to live in Texas for the rest of my life. And I still think I'm going to. I don't have the Texas flag tattooed on me for nothing after all. I love it here. Where else will you drive for a whole day and not leave the state? Where else has the desert, the plains, forests, the beach, hills and mountains, all in one state? My family is here, my friends are here. And plus, we're just the best fucking state in America. Duh.

All that being said, I do have a gasoline ass. Wanderlust would be a more prettier way to put it I suppose. There's so much out there to see and do and eat (hey, I like food!). I can only stay in my room for so long before I throw on my shoes and run out the door. And while I want to stay in Texas to raise a family and have a career, I don't want to pigeonhole myself at 21 (that's when I graduate). I don't want to immediately hunker down and never have gone anywhere else, experienced something wildly different from where I've been.

I want to leave for a year or two (that's why I'm thinking grad school). I want to go to a place I've never been, or been barely. I want to do and see and eat things I can't do/see/eat down here. I want to have memories and pictures and friends I can bring back home with me.

So, where and why? Cause even though I'm not sure kinda what I'm going to do after college, I am thinking about getting a MA in American Studies or History if all this goes well. I'd like to be a professor and history professors generally don't have only BA's. So I can see going to grad school two or three years after I graduate.

Where? Chicago. I've always wanted to go to Chicago. Boston would be nice, especially as I am giant American History buff. Plus, they have cool ass colonial cemeteries I've seen pictures of and I'm itching to go photograph myself. Ditto those reasons for Philadelphia, plus I've always wanted to explore more of Pennsylvania-esp. Gettysburg! San Francisco....really expensive. Still want to go. Portland seems like Austin except in Oregon. :) Ditto Seattle. All places I want to go.

The one that's weighing most on my mind now and the one that is the most impractical is New York City. I know. I know. It's ridiculously expensive. It's unbelievably big. I'm thousands of miles away from home. But it's full of art art and more art, people from literally every part of the globe, more museums and galleries than I can shake a stick at and FOOD! Plus, it'd look REAAAAALLLLY good if I had on my resume an MA from Columbia. Lol.

So that's what's been on my mind recently.