In less than two weeks, I’ll be back home. And I can’t wait.

I guess I’m weird. Supposedly when people study abroad, they’re supposed to fall in love with where they are and all their fun and exciting study abroad friends… and they’re supposed to never want to leave. In their last weeks, they’re supposed to be so motivated to make the most of their last days, and on they’re last day, they’re supposed to be bawling.

Yeah, that’s not going to happen to me.

It’s not that I don’t like it here; I do. Like the country that is. And I really like a few of the people here. The problem is everyone else. But most of all, I’m getting dead-tired of my living situation here. Won’t say anything else about that because who know’s who’s reading this, but let it suffice to say that I really, desperately want to run Repair Disk on my hard drive but I forgot to bring my OS X install disk to Poland.

Another root of my, uh, discomfort may lie in the true reason I came to Poland: to finish my novel. I didn’t come here to make great friends that I’d never see again or to booze every night because you don’t have to be 21 to drink. I didn’t come here for the time of my life. I really did come here for a quiet place to write my book—and learn a lot about a new culture and do some traveling in the meantime (okay, okay, and make a few—FEW— real friends)… but now that the book’s done, there’s no gold-leaf covering the rat’s nest, as it were.

And then there’s the whole issue that I have no money. Why am I always thinking about money? I guess I’m just really insecure. Anyway, I’ve literally spent the whole semester spending money without any way to make money, and I’m at the end of my rope here. I just keep thinking about how I’m going to have to find a job when I get home and dig myself out of debt and blah blah blah, which has kind of put a damper on my spirits. So that’s why I’m reading Harry Potter.

Oh, and I’m also getting too stoked to launch my career as a fine artist and illustrator. Brace yourselves; I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve…

Despite all this stuff, though, I’m not quite ready to go home. I still have to see the fabled Wilanów Palace and the Poster Museum. I’m also gonna visit the Royal Castle again to see a collection of art that’s on loan here from Cracow (including the da Vinci piece). I’m also working on a little art project of the Old Town Market Square. I want to do another photo walk or two to see some parts of the city I somehow still haven’t gotten to… So all that’s gonna take some time.

Oh, and I’m going to Gdansk tomorrow. Later.