I'm starting to feel better, finally. I really hope I don't get sick for the rest of the year and all of 2014 as well. Spending an entire month ill is way too much, especially during my last semester in Blacksburg!

The next two weeks are going to be a little crazy, not exactly with classwork, but just trying to keep up with AMSA, research, and my friends before everyone leaves.

It's slowly starting to hit me that I'm going to be spending 4 months in a foreign country. Then going to medical school. What is this life?

I started writing this a while back...I think I already wrote something a little different but I'm going to post it anyway.


Someday, in a place where you and I never existed,

where chairs and trees and windows bared no witness 

to the way our eyes connected and to the texture of our embraces.

where our names arn't intertwined in our friend's minds like tangled laces

There will be a space, 

Where the ground was not tread down by both our footsteps
and the rooms do not echo with the sound of the special way
only you could make me laugh.

There will be a place infused with only my own essence,

with colors and shapes that will change the way these eyes look at the world,

unexpected scents to internalize, foreign words and phrases
that I will use to sculpt my new memories.

New hearts through which to be discovered, new identities to create,

it will be a geographical point entirely my own,

where I will find peace from this mercurial, desperate loneliness.