Pre-First Day Adrenaline Buzz

It begins tomorrow.

Tomorrow is my first day of school at a real, live University. Not an online, correspondence, virtual-teacher college...a real college. The kind where you see your professor in the flesh face to face from a podium or in front of a chalkboard, giving real, inspiring words of knowledge with his or her own live, unique and distinctly human perspective. Where thousands of young, bright students will be bustling along, blinking in the Texas heat, bright with eagerness to read, stay up late drinking coffee, wrinkle their foreheads as they punch numbers into their scientific calculators, and hear the scratching sounds of freshly sharpened No. 2 pencils against college-ruled notebook paper for the next four months. Where activists, punks, artists, interest groups and people from every color of the spectrum will mingle and muddle together in a kaleidescope of God's diverse and wild beauty in humanity.

I feel like a character in a movie. Or, perhaps more like an actress on the stage that's been waiting to say the lines she's worked hard to feel inside her bones. I've been waiting for this season for years, have had tastes of it through different experiences in community college and working at Teen Mania. I know that it's what I was made for...it's one of the few things I know to be part of my destiny.

I doubt that I will sleep very much tonight...