It's cheaper to go to Europe for a month than it is to go to New York City for two weeks.

My 30th birthday is in five and a half years. That's a blink of an eye.

There are so many things I want to do before I turn 30.

In talking to a friend last night I found that many of her goals are the same as mine. These are my goals:
1. Graduate
2. Read a paperback on a beach in Australia
3. Backpack Europe
4. Become Big in Japan...in my own mind
5. Scale one Pyramid of Giza

In researching item #3 this morning I found that my European Experience is definately possible to do before my 26th birthday when I am still able to receive a discount rail pass. I think the wording on the website was, "Just graduated and want to see what the world has to offer? Putting off college for a while?" I think I fall into that second category.

Thus begins the planning of EuroBackpacking Trip Spring 2008.

Dreams et all.

I had a dream yester-night about how bad my neck hurt (which really isn't a dream, my neck really does hurt).

In my dream I was lying in my bed on a pillow that was made out of some sort of substance that was cold. It seemed to be helping with the pain but the pillow got warm. I got out of bed holding the frozen pillow and thought, "I better put this in the freezer." I placed the pillow in what I thought was the freezer and got back in bed.

I woke up.

I walked by my closet and saw that it was closed. Odd. I thought I left it open.

I opened my closet to find my cuddle pillow resting on my pile of shoes.

Since I was young I had a tendency to talk and walk in my sleep. I guess one never grows out of that. My sister recalls have conversations with me while I was asleep, always ending with, "Allison, go back to bed." My mom would tell me that when I would walk in my sleep my eyes would be wide open. I can imagine myself in my night clothes groping my way upstairs, through the kitchen and down the hall to my mom's room to talk to her or ask her a question to which she always replied, "Allison, go back to bed." In my limbo of slumber I would obey.

I've heard stories about people walking out of their houses while asleep. I never wanted that to happen to me.

It could be worse, I could be Jake Gyllenhaal's character in Donnie Darko.