do you believe in love?

I do. I have found reason to go back to believing in dreams and knights in shining armor. After this spring and all the drama, I'm so grateful to see that chivalry is alive and well in the world. It makes me really wonder though, about the future. I suppose I'm simply curious. I'm young, and I've most certainly never been in love. Yet, "happily ever after" is definitely something that I daydream about. (According to SRL, your brain thinks of either future or past 70% of the time. I guess we aren't really "here and now" very often). When I daydream about it, it makes me think of the different songs I've heard. All of the things - the poems, the stories, the lyrics - dedicated to love. I think of all of the songs that catch my attention, this one wins hand down at being my favorite as far as cuteness. I love the Beatles. They were (and are for the two still living) brilliant. Bloody brilliant. Someday, it would be nice if someone thought this, in regards to me.

I've just seen a face
I can't forget the time or place
where we just met
she's just the girl for me and
I want all the world to see we've met

Had it been another day
I might have looked the other way
and I'd have never been aware
but as it is I'll dream of her tonight

return to routine

I'm ditching my "travel blog" and coming back to this. It makes sense, because I'm no longer abroad, so I guess that thing will just sit there until I go somewhere else, and there'll be this huge time gap in between the posts. Whatever though.

I was thinking about my plan to go on a roadtrip back to P-town with my brother next week. I must admit, I'm very excited about it. It will be a good chance to hang out with Mich, and I haven't been there for an entire year, and I miss everyone. Or, at least, I miss enough people to make it worth my time to go; I don't miss everyone. That would be ridiculous. When I first decided to go to Turkey, I realized that I would miss out on this roadtrip that we had been planning for a few months, and I was terribly sad about it. Even though I'm home early from Turkey, which was unexpected, I love how perfectly it worked out that we can still go.

Thinking about everyone back on the west coast, it makes me wonder if anyone else thinks of me. It's not that I want to make people think about me, and I don't want to be all "oh my gosh, I'm soo cool, people always think about me" or anything stupid like that. I'm simply just curious. There are days when I'll see a picture of someone, and I spend a significant amount of time wondering what they've been up to for the past few years, and how they are, etc. I guess I'm just curious about how other peoples' minds work and what they think of when they see a picture from years ago or something.

I have a few more days of chilling and doing nothing here in the Midwest until I go halfway cross the country to see people that make me smile. If you are reading this, and you didn't know that I was going to be there and you want to hang out, call me. I'd love to see you. :)