Anna: The Second Task

Sending this from my dorm room: Broadway 0371, at 5:14 in the evening. I have nothing to do. My side of the room is spic and span, unnaturally so for anyone who knows me, and I'm just waiting for dinner. "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" is stuck in my head.... and I'm slightly disappointed that people aren't more willing to randomly introduce themselves in the dorms. But maybe I'm simply expecting too much on the first day. I love my view. I'm looking out at a hill, with trees everywhere, and the constantly changing Portland skyline. There's a small park across the street that I'm planning on visiting.

So basically I'm here with Sylvia Plath, rambling about how depressed/not depressed she is. Its a lonely day. But I'm not unhappy. I've finally come to that milestone that I've been striving for for four years. In the old stories, the heros always seem to have to complete three tasks....my first task is finished: childhood. I am no longer a child, nor am I quite yet an adult. This second task, which I am naming Higher Education is predictably more challenging than my previous one. But I have no choice but to succeed. To fail is to lose everything I have worked for. It is to lose the reward that is waiting for me beyond all the colossal obstacles: happiness. Maybe. Perhaps I am striving for something else all together.

This is the start of the second task. The second novel of my trilogy life. I have been separated from my comrades, and we must fight our own battles now. And when we reunite, we will have made and lost more comrades, and won and lost different battles, and conquered small evils. I look forward to that day. But for now, I must sit and wait for my adventure to resume.