Into the Future

As I've just reached the half-way point of my undergraduate college career, I've begun to wonder what I'll do after graduation.  I have definitely decided on graduate school, but choosing where and what I'd like to study has become difficult.  My interested cover a wide range: History, Literature, Philosophy, History of Music, History of Art, Classics, Foreign Languages...it goes on.  I am most interested in History, Literature, and Classics.  Which sounds perfect because Classics is historical languages and literature.  So that makes things a little easier, but it's hard to just forget about my other interests. 
Then I began to think of where I'd like to go for graduate training.  First I started looking close-by.  Then my girlfriend encouraged my to reach higher, and I looked into Harvard.  It seems pretty perfect, offering most everything that I'm interested in.  The expense is actually not as high as you'd think, but their expectations certainly are.  If you drop below a B, you have to take the class over.  At least, that's how it sounded to me. 
Then my mother, ever-supportive, (and I lover her dearly for it!), turns to me and says, "Why settle?  You could go anywhere!  Why stay in the United States?"
I blinked.  It had never even occurred to me that I could go ANYWHERE.  This was both very exciting and very intimidating.  Now my list of potential schools has grown tenfold.  But there are so many amazing schools to choose from, I don't mind the hunt.
I still haven't decided on a school, or even a program, but I'm narrowing it down slowly, day by day.

Too tired to sleep

Have you ever been so exhausted that you lose all motivation to do anything, even to smile?
Well, my friend, I'm there.
I believe that the most amount of sleep I've had in about a week is 5 hours one night.  I wake at 7am each day to get ready for work.  And I stay up late watching movies and talking with my girlfriend.
Don't get me wrong, I don't regret these long nights in the least. 
Lately, I've noticed that I'm much less motivated to do anything.  Eat, walk, laugh, work, even sleep.  I feel angry, or sad, but I have nothing to be sad or angry about.  Sure, work is a little boring, but the rest of my life is fantastic.  I don't see any other reason why I would feel this way, other than the lack of sufficient sleep.  There is no reason for depression.  So it must be sleep?
It just feels like I have no time in the day.  I get home from work around 3pm, then I have to give the dog her medicine and check the pool, (which is always having a problem), and fix it.  Then I go visit my girlfriend, we go get something for dinner, maybe watch a movie.  Before I know it, it's time to sleep (at 2 or 3am), and then repeat the process all over again.  My room is a mess because I haven't had time to clean it.  My face is scruffy because I haven't even had time enough to shave.  That's a sad statement, not even enough time to shave my face.
So I get my 3 or 4 hours of sleep each night.  And lately it's been taking a toll on me. 

In other news, I am officially traveling to Italy this coming Fall Semester, and staying for two months.  Also, I've planned a weekend trip to Greece while I'm there.  That was quite a difficult feat!  First of all, I couldn't use any of the websites I needed, because they were all in Greek.  So it took a few days, looking at a multitude of websites, while changing back and forth between the website I needed and a greek translation website.  A lot of work, but I'm finally done.  I am also officially going to Greece!  Also through this experience, I've learned some Greek!

Hopefully in my next entry, I'll be able to say how much better I'm feeling.
Until then.