To Have Patience... Boy Wouldn't Life Go Faster?

All around, I guess I could say that I'm very happy. Things are going great, I'm excited for 2 of my cousins (one from my mom's side of the family, the other from my dad's), both of whom are getting married, and both of whom are rather fresh return missionaries. I think one has been back for almost 2 years, but still... about time! hehe :) But I'm very very very excited for both of them and can't wait to meet their future wives (and my new cousin-in-laws!). :)
However, I am no longer dealing with Crohn's Disease, but rather a new and equally frustrating "disease". I have caught "senioritis", and I have it bad. I'm so eager to get out of highschool, Dubuque, the midwest, live life on my own for a while. Meet new people, have some independence, work towards my goals in a new environment. I really want to major in music education, and maybe get a degree in conducting. (I think there might be a more formal name for that, but whatever it is... I'd like to conduct orchestras/symphonies and earn my degree to be able to do that.) However, I need to spend a year at Clarke College before I can go anywhere else. 1) I get free tuition at Clarke (can't pass that up), 2) if I get sick with crohn's again, it'd be best to be at home, and 3) my parents say it will be good for me to ease into college this way, stay in the same environment yet transition into a new school environment. I know they're right, I'm just being really impatient. And eager. :P But once I'm done with at least 1 year at Clarke College, I want to head out west and go to, of course, BYU Provo. I have family out there who I can stay with and it's a great place to go to college I've heard. (oh and I'll just say it.. I kind of really want to get married within the next DECADE, and I'm sure I'd have a better chance of finding my man out in the mormon bubble than I would in the midwest. I know I could be wrong, but I'm not going to sit here and wait. I'd rather explore the world and be wrong than sit and wait and be unsuccessful.)

I wrote a song about senioritis last night. It goes to the tune of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". It's very cheesy, but it works, and it's accurate.

Get me out of highschool
Get me out of here now
Graduate early or skip a grade
Find a good college then I'll have it made
But until I get that diploma
I'll sit and try not to pout
For just ONE MORE YEAR out of 12
Until I'll be out!!!

I have 31 weeks left of school.
I really should be more patient.. and try and enjoy what I have while I have it.