That school thing I do

The actual path that I want my formal education to take is slowly becoming clearer. I can't say anything definite, but I do believe that I know what I want to do in college, which is in fact what I've pretty much wanted to do in college along, which is English and Studio Art.

Yes I know--"What are you going to do with that?" While I know what I want to study, my choice of future career is something that's in constant flux. For most of my childhood (and admittedly much more recently than that) I wanted to be a paleontologist. For many years I wanted to be an animator until I realized that what I wanted to do (hand-drawn animation) doesn't really exist anymore. Late in high school I somewhat reluctantly realized that I would probably be a teacher. I don't know why I was so reluctant about this admission, but somehow it felt like an inevitable career path for me.

Last semester I had a burning passion to be a dairy farmer, and this semester I'm entertaining the idea of being a children's book illustrator/author. Plus there's this whole agility thing plus other things I love like photography and crocheting and playing guitar and running and who knows how many other things that I haven't even tried yet? 

I don't jump from these things as drastically or frequently as that may have come across. I still truly and honestly want to do all of them. What is in flux is what I'm actually going to pursue. So for right now, my choice is not to worry about it at all. I'm going to follow my interests in college without having a definite idea of what the "next step" is going to be. My biggest fear is I want to do so many things that I'll just end up giving up and doing none of them. 

My semester summed up

I'm taking Photography, Literary Theory, Biblical Studies, and French. And I'm running. An awful lot of running. (Chameleon Circuit anyone? You out ther zingerq? )