Things I'm Looking Forward To
Or, to be more grammatically correct...
Things to Which I am Looking Forward
Cousins Night Out (with some possible Aunt involvement)- This year is our first annual cousins' night out. That is, Rachel (and Mally) and Anna-Kate are coming to stay with me in Tuscaloosa. We're going to a gymnastics meet here, where we will be cheering on the Auburn Tigers against Alabama's award-winning team (I figure AU will be glad to have us). I love a good excuse to wear navy and orange on UA's campus, and I'm also loving the idea of traveling with a small entourage of navy and orange-clad fans (I am not so brave as to sport this look while flying solo). We female cousins are just the beginning of the inevitable conversion of the Marcum clan, a group formerly of the more Crimson persuasion. I'm pretty amped about our little girls' night as it's high time that AK was initiated into the Older Cousins' Circle. What I'm saying is, after our gymnastics weekend, you will have officially graduated from the kiddie table, my dear... and possibly from the gift swap... sorry about that.
2nd Annual Marcum Family Basketball Outing- As mentioned, the family currently stands with a majority of Bama fans (it's a work in progress, friends). As such, my living in Tuscaloosa comes in handy what with sporting events and such. So for the second year in a row, my aunts, uncles, grandparents, parents, and cousins will be joining me here in Tuscaloosa for a basketball game... against Ole Miss, I believe (let's be honest, if AU's not involved, I'm just there for the fellowship). I love any reason-- even a UA reason-- to get together with my family, and the word on the street is that Bama's pretty good this year. I think it's really more of a basketball school anyway...
Practicum I- This semester, yesterday specifically, I start counseling students. The program kind of eases you into actual counseling, so in the first practicum I spend 4 50-minute sessions with 4 undergraduate student volunteers (most of whom have my grad professor as an undergrad professor) in exchange for extra credit in their class. With these being volunteer students and not students actively seeking counseling, there are no real crises to speak of, although some of them do have issues that come up. It's a gentle first taste of the counseling world, and I am both excited and terrified. I have to review tapes of these sessions first by myself and second with a classmate and our professor, and it just so happens that watching myself on tape is like my own personal hell. So that should be fun...
Israel- In my last post, I mentioned that my friend Matt is living in Israel this semester. I think I've mentioned before too that friends living in exotic places is kind of the perfect time to visit said exotic place. So, with Matt's blessing, I'm planning a trip to Israel. Hopefully this won't be one of those things that you talk about quite a bit but never see through to fruition. Chasley's onboard too, so hopefully that'll be the driving force to pull the trigger on an actual plane ticket.
A healed muscle- I can't be sure that this is going to happen as it hasn't happened yet, but I do sincerely look forward to and hope that it does. On my NYE trip, Annie said she was more flexible than I. Challenge: accepted. There in the living room, we had a splits-off. Annie didn't stretch. Challenge: accepted. Lindsey should have stretched. Muscle: torn. I got up and limped off without a word, proud that I had at least tied in the competition. The next day we went skiing, which was unsuccessful in the extreme on my part (I blame the torn muscle as my natural athleticism would have otherwise proven me a dynamite skier...). Since then, my left butt cheek-- oh yes, the gluteus maximus, and don't you laugh, you use it far more than you might realize-- has been a thorn in my side... er, butt. Sitting down, standing up, picking things up off the ground, working out... ouch, ouch, ouch. With no recovery in sight, I sit on a heating pad at almost all times... just another step in the granny direction.
Beach- Maybe it's the cold weather or the general gloom of this time of the year, but I find myself craving the salty air and bright sunshine. I just want to dig my feet into scalding hot sand and fall asleep on a towel while I read a Program Development text book. Luckily, we're planning a long weekend in April... but that seems so far away. So for now, all the backgrounds on my computer are beach and lake scenes... A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.
YES! I'm excited too! I'm glad I am finally able to escape the kids table after 18 years. Will be there be initiation? I was talking to my friend William tonight about how a couple of his friends had to jump into a pool in March that probably hadn't been cleaned out since July to get initiated into something. If this weekend by itself could just count as the initiation, that would be nice though.
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