A better explanation...

OK, so I said I’d write more “later”, and I guess it’s “later” now.

I’m going to college! LOL—that probably seems so mundane to some people, but to me it’s huge. I submitted my application ages ago, I’d done the whole interview thing, and I’ve been waiting to know for sure one way or the other.

Then, I was sitting at the computer at the library (because the library has high-speed internet, as opposed to the dial-up at home, so I do almost all my online stuff there) and Dad comes up behind me.

“Finish that and come with me,” he says.

I’m thinking Uh-oh, what have I done now? So I close out my computer and follow him out the front door.

“Am I in trouble?” I ask.

He turns around and looks at me. “Yeah, you’re in trouble,” he says, waving an envelope in front of my face. “I told you to get a job!” (Explanation: I haven’t gotten a job yet, which I need to do, and we had just had that conversation the day before.)

I spot the college logo on the corner of the envelope and look at the little window where it shows my address.

Congratulations, LoriAnn! It says. (Um, yeah—big surprise, my legal name is not Trav, short for “The Traveler. LOL)

I’ll admit I did a bit of a little squealy thing here. ‘Nuf said. J

So there it is: this fall, I’ll be a college freshman (God willing and the creeks don’t rise…). Part of me is super-thrilled, and part of me—that part in the pit of my stomach—is completely freaked out. To all my Christian friends out there, please be praying for me. I’m now going to be figuring out how to pay for the first semester (though the college I’m going to has an amazing work-through program, so I’ll pay for my tuition as I go) and how to sign up for classes and figure out…everything.

I’ll keep this blog updated—that’s a warning to anyone who isn’t interested. LOL

See ya’ll,

~Trav