end days

Aubrey Beardsley, Salomé

So summer's winding down and I hate this time of year. My birthday is the first day of August and what follows is usually a grueling month of self-evaluation and anxiety about the future. It's clearly something about starting the new school year, too. I'm graduating from Penn State in December and I couldn't be more excited. Still, the blank slate laid out before me is reminiscent of the days I spent in high school trying to decide which college to attend, not knowing where my head would be hitting a pillow a year from now. We only fear the unknown...