Back to God's Country!

I hope you have not been waiting with baited breath for my next blog post because I am afraid that you, my friend, may now hold the Guiness record for holding your breath! So here I am on this lovely, well cloudy, fall day in Vermont waiting to get on a plane to go home for Thanksgiving break! I simply cannot believe that the time has come for me to head back home for a holiday. This fall has literally flown by and my time in Vermont can only be summed up in a bunch of adjectives: awesome, fun, stressful, happy, sad, anxious, frustrated, jubilant, and wonderful. As you can see I have had a gamete of emotions this fall and they have been wonderful and frustrating all at the same time. It's difficult to describe. I have loved seeing the fall in Vermont and have had an amazing time getting to know the women of the Lambda chapter and also getting to meet Theta royalty. At the same time it has been extremely challenging and difficult at times. Maybe I just need a break or I am completely overwhelmed with grad school applications and the very close deadline, but I needless to say, need a break! Life has been going 100 mph lately and I'm ready to set the cruise on at a comfortable 65 mph for the next couple of weeks. I am so excited to go home to ND! I can't even tell you. I love Vermont, I love that it is liberal, I love that vegans run wild and rampant, I love the mountains and I love interesting folk that meander around downtown Burlington but I'm ready to go home for a while. I miss conservative ND where nothing seems to have changed except for the number of oil wells that have been erected in the last couple of years. I miss a big juicy steak fresh off of the ranch. I love that you would probably be jailed in Killdeer if you were a vegan, that, or you would starve. I miss The badlands, I have seen a lot of pretty places but nothing takes my breath away like those colored buttes. I especially miss the down to earth, genuine folks who wave at every car that passes by and know me and my high school basketball statistics by heart even if it was almost 5 years ago. I miss home and I am so ready to go back.