It has been a long time. Who knew ten days could be so....drawn out, endlessly dragging on and on. Alright, so the cruise thing was actually pretty cool. Good food, great shows, and the novelty of a floating city. But it was still long. I think the problem was that I wasn't with all of the people that I really wanted to be with. Every so often, I looked at my friend's family and thought "This isn't my family...this isn't my life. What am I doing here?" But it wasn't all bad. We were just at this rather awkward age (who knew 18 could be awkward?) where we weren't ready to party with the adults (who were all inebriated), but we were done partying with the teens (the teen club catered to ages 15-17...a maturity level that we just escaped), and there weren't many people our age on board. And I rather missed my dearest boy (only 3 weeks and 2 days...that's 552 hours, down from 840...sigh). The only thing I bought was internet. How silly.

But today I ordered luggage (in NYU colors, of course). And a backpack. Mmmm. College will now be tangible in these items. And it's the only really productive thing I've done since I graduated.