All of Time and Space, everything that ever happened or ever will...Where do you want to start?

I'm marking this day with a new blog. This is not the day that I ultimately decided to completely switch my career path mostly because I had completely forgotten about my blog thing. Which is unfortunate as I've been very eloquent and emotive when I write my posts.
Nor is this the day that I set up my college courses to incorporate said career path.
This is the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!
Just kidding.
This is the day that I begin the big planning.

Now, I'm going to Brigham Young University (BYU) for college in the fall. It's in Provo, Utah, USA, for anyone who cares. My grandpa recently died and that was where he graduated from. I've always felt closer to him than most other people in my family and I feel like I owe it to him to graduate from there too. Carry on the family tradition of sorts. I will graduate from there unless it becomes absolute impossible for me to do so. As much as the idea of graduating from somewhere else is absolutely revolting, if it comes down to choosing between my career and graduating from BYU, I think I'll have to pick my career. Or I won't. Who knows? I haven't had to face that decision yet and I may bend on that a little bit.
But the decision I've made today that I know will alter my experiences in the world is that I'm going to study abroad at the Richmond University in London. They've got my major (sociology) and my minor (theatre arts). I don't know if I'm going to go for two years or just one. But I will be going.
Reasons why:

• If I want to be taken seriously in the UK, I'm going to need both street cred and connections. I can't do that easily from the US
• I'm going to need to learn one of the accents and have it be my default. That means a lot of exposure which I won't be able to get in a couple of weeks
• Note: I also pick up accents easily and they kind of get stuck. It won't be that I'll be trying to sound like a native, I just will. I can't help it. I listen to too much country music (my favorite genre) and I get a Southern twang
• I don't want to just be thrown in for complete culture shock. I don't think it'll be too bad, because I've lived in both rural areas and a big city that is itself a conglomeration of a bunch of different cultures. But at the same time I do want to look after myself. I'll be a stranger in a foreign land (literally) and trying to find work on top of that? No bueno.
• I need to experience something outside of what I know rather than just hear of it or see it. I need to be it.
• It'll make the process of getting into the UK permanently, or at least semi-permanently, a whole heck of a lot easier

Well, there ya have it. One stage of the planning down. Probably a butt ton more stages and more work than I've ever dreamed, but that's okay. I'm in this for the long haul.

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

                        ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
*DUE TO PROBLEMS, THIS POST WAS NOT POSTED UNTIL 5/9/2014*
*IT WAS ORIGINALLY MEANT TO BE POSTED 4/29/2014*