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I guess the jokes on me.

This last full week of Londonhood went by extremely fast. I felt as if I had only just started my work experience at the Lit agency and it was suddenly over. Not only that I have three classes left - of not just this term but for my entire master program! A year just zipped by. And to think I almost didn't finish the first term.

I wasn't liking London, didn't have any friends yet, the dorms were a horrible shock to my system - as it is like living in a jail cell, the school was only 2 nights a week then and that was all I had. Not to mention the realization of how much money this is all costing me and will it ever be worth it? But I have to say I think my writing has come a long way since September. Not only that but my over all general script knowledge has increased ten fold! I've never read so many stage plays, screenplays, TV shows - mostly plays - in my life. Still I want more. So that's a good indication I chose right.

I remember when I first started college as an undergrad in 2001, it was at Roosevelt's Performing Arts Conservatory as a musical theater major in Chicago. I literally lasted one day and had a panic attack. It just wasn't the right place for me. So I dropped out and majored in film at Columbia College down the road. And though I do enjoy film production I really wanted to study playwriting even back then but felt it was useless as I had so many outside voices telling me at least with a production course you can get paid work. Boy did I get it - for the lowest pay and hardest work! Not worth it. I should have started in lit back then. But I have so many random and wacky adventures because I didn't that I can now write about, or put into my characters and their journey's.

So in the end I think the decisions I made were all very valuable. The only one I regret is not looking for an apartment here in London. I will not miss my tiny four walls, cot bed, shower over the toilet that doesn't drain, the heat or the noise. But I will miss what's out side of it. London.