END OF COLLEGE!

I am done with college! Two Bachelor's degrees are now under my belt: hooray!

If I had to give this a title, what would it be?

I meant to write in here yesterday, but academia sometimes has that nasty tendency of getting in the way of things you actually want to do....

While I still feel slightly bored with my life, I should mention that I am not expecting overnight changes to make life more thrilling. There are right ways to make life more exciting, and there are really bad ways to do that as well.

Even though school will be wrapping up in the next week or so, it really does not feel that way...aside from all the things I have to do between now and then. I am making headway on that, however there is still a bit to go.

I think continuing my EMS studies this summer will help make life a little more exciting. Moving from EMT-B to EMT-I is not that big of a jump (since there tends to be a large amount of overlap) but it does open the door to a bunch of other cool things you can do....like give more drugs and giving them intravenously. Clinicals in the fall will be pretty cool too, but I don't know about spending 12-hour shifts in the back of an ambulance or an ER. Personally I think that, currently, I prefer the ER over an ambulance. However, there is something about driving really fast with lights and sirens on that is somewhat thrilling. At times I think I want to be a fire fighter, however the only real reason why I would want to do that would be to drive the fire truck, and apparently in some areas you have to earn the rank of "Driver". Running into burning buildings is not quite my thing.

Starting a new job over a month ago also helped make things a little more exciting. For a good portion of that first month, I was really busy helping my department prepare for an important visit and for final exams, but now that both of those milestones have passed, things are not as hectic and I can go at a slightly easy pace.

I guess the gist of my story here is that, while I may not be entirely happy with my life, I am not sure how much I would change. There is also a lot up ahead that I am not entirely sure how (and even if) I will deal with it. There is a lot that I need to think about within the coming weeks and months.

This isn't my first attempt at a blog and something tells me it won't be the last. I think part of the reason why I decide to do these things is because sometimes there are some things you just can't talk about. You have these thoughts running through your head at the speed of light and you either need to put them down somewhere, or you want to talk to someone about them, but for whatever reason you find yourself unable to do so.

I think the one big thing I want to throw out there is that I am finding myself increasingly bored with my life. Day in and day out, I do pretty much the same thing. I wake up, get dressed, go to work or school, do my thing there, and come home. Now, there is nothing wrong with stability, but sometimes falling into a stable routine can be just as damaging as being in uncertainty.

This isn't the first time I find myself here: in fact, it seems like I keep coming back to this place, and it usually tends to occur during the warmer months. Maybe I feel that with every Spring I need to undergo some sort of reawakening as well. Who knows.

Graduating from college (again) is starting to evoke some of the same feelings it did last time. There is a sense of sadness at the closing of one phase of my life, however I am in a better place this time than I was the last time I graduated. I have a full-time job and a plan of where I am going next.

I'm sure I'll write more later...