The Last Great Hurdle

As of an hour and twenty minutes ago I'm officially twenty-one years old. That means I'm a full adult with all the privileges, finally! I'm not sure how I feel about it. I'm not having the traditional go-out-at-midnight-and-get-drunk birthday even though I can sleep in tomorrow. It just didn't seem like fun, especially in all this rain. There's a lot going on this week, so the festivities will probably be sort of drawn out. I got a gorgeous crimson Nintendo DS from Trevor, who spoils me, last week, and my sister gave me the trade paperback of the latest four-part storyarc from ElfQuest, which I've been meaning to buy, and A Miracle on 34th Street on DVD, which I unfortunately just bought last week, so I have to return. I won't be getting my present from my parents until I go home for Christmas because they "don't feel comfortable shipping it" (cryptic). The housemates and Trevor and I have plans to go to Kabuki (amazing Japanese restaurant) for dinner and midori sours either on Tuesday or Thursday, so that should be fun. Lastly, the housemates have agreed to buy me a new microfiber comforter and sheets, so we all get to go to JC Penny at some point and pick one out. Probably not this Saturday, though, because we have the GRE (eek!).

It's a little scary being twenty-one and knowing that there aren't really any more birthdays that people look forward to, but I feel that I'll enjoy it. I finally got a new phone with my cell phone bill in my name (had to have it in my dad's name before because I had no credit history), so I'm slowly cutting the parental ties and taking on more responsibility. I feel pretty capable and optimistic about the future, I just need to take these things one at a time (and get my 50 pages of final papers written in the next 2.5 weeks). Phew!