awake

i didn't have coffee tonight but i'm still as awake as you, my friend

my heart is restless and wild and my head is racing to keep up

i am excited to see your face tomorrow and curious as to what the day will bring

i'm apprehensive about this semester but will look ahead with confidence and joy

tonight was epic, in a looser sense of the word, but in many ways

i will be happy to share a room with you and then share our lives with others

sometimes i don't know what certain emotions mean

i don't know myself as well as i thought

scraps of newspaper and magazine clippings are all strewn across my bed

i am exhausted, but happy, and content

i just made something beautiful and i think i made someone smile.