Can I graduate?

Last weekend if I were in school at Southwestern, I would have been walking the stage at graduation.

But I'm here, instead. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that I came here at this time (if the other alternative was not studying abroad at all). But don't think I'm not suffering the consequences.

Being abroad has disoriented (but sometimes reoriented) my views and goals in so many ways. It really is "soooo life changing". But for most of my friends who have done this, they have at least gone back to something familiar-- the routine of going to college classes, living in a college town-- some sort of forced re-assimilation. As for me, I really have no idea what I'm getting myself into when I come back. The opportunities are frighteningly endless. I could go through with my tentative plan before I came here:

1) get a temporary job (not picky... just get some source of income... but preferably one with health benefits!)
2) find a place to live
a. stay at home and save money
b. Move to California and go broke, but establish residency in case I decide to do grad
school there (depending on the kind of job I can land/amount of income)
3) do a little more research on grad schools/potential advisors/ decide between doing Asia Pacific relations or Political Theory
a. UCSD?
b. UT?
c. UC Davis?
d. some awesome school I hadn't even heard of before?

Sure, these are things that most Seniors have figured out. But I'm not in any rush. Anyway, that was just a little tidbit for those who want to know where my life might be headed when I get back. But don't be surprised if I...
a) throw in the towel and get a job working for The Man.
b) audition for Survivor... or try to get some program to make me the next "Survivorgirl" or "Woman versus Wild" I mean, I've gotta make use of these skills, right?