An overly ambitious outlook...

I've been thinking a lot lately about what I'm going to do after I graduate college. Yes, I understand it's only  my junior year and I have "so much time" to figure things out, but when you really think about it, a year and a half goes by in what feels like a heartbeat. So I've got some options.  There are things that I want to do and things that I think I "should do."  Either way I'm moving. I'm moving somewhere I've never been where I'll be forced to make new friends, because looking back on my life I've never been forced to make friends, they've always just been around.  Growing up, it was dance. There was the group of girls I'd been in class with since I was 7 and before that, there was the girl who lived across the street from me, we were expected to be friends, and we were. College came and here I am at Meredith where my friends were hand delivered to me in the form of my department. We are such a small major that all of us kind of grew to be friends, you had to be or your life was going to be hell.  Meredith in general hand delivers you your friends.  We are like one big sorority and your friends are just kind of there.  Anyway, moving on to the point of this, I'm going to move. Shane will be in college for at least an extra  year longer than me which will give me time to set up my life. I would love for him to join me when he graduates, because let's face it, I love him and want to spend the rest of my life with him but I don't want him to resent me for forming a life without him while he's still in school. Hopefully that won't happen. 
So we've established that I'll be moving.  What am I going to do when I move?
Well in an ideal world, I'd make a life teaching dance and performing while I create my own production company in whatever city I'm in.  Yes, production company.  My creative bug has been biting me so hard lately that all I want to do is choreography and write music and create shows.  I'm not sure if it's going to be a dance company or a musical theater company or what but I want to form a group that will put things I create on stage. I'd love to get paid for it too, that would surely be ideal.  I just want to make things for the people and I want what I create to make a difference. I'd love to work in partnership with The Trevor Project but we'll see where that goes. Now I know that all of this working out in my favor is extremely far fetched but I really want to do this.
So that is what I want to do.  What I should do is a different story. Yes, I am looking into graduate school to get my masters.  Most people would look at that as the ideal post-grad plan but I'm not so sure. I would love to go to graduate school for one of three things: Women's Studies, Activism and Social Change(!!!!), or get an MFA in dance.  That last one seems way out of reach because I kind of suck at what I'm majoring in but that's beside the point.  There are 3 schools that I'm looking at and all of them are so radically different than Meredith, NYU, Amherst College in Massachusetts, or U-Michigan.  I'd honestly be happy at any of these schools but again, I'm not sure if I'd be happy being in school for another 2-3 years.  Even if I do go to Grad School, I have a feeling I'd still be working on my overly ambitious plans to start a production company. 
So where will I go if I don't go to graduate school? Well there are a few destinations on my mind.
Number 1. Wilmington, NC.  Stay in North Carolina you say? Why would I want to do that? Well here's the thing. I love Wilmington.  Shane love Wilmington.  We've discussed many times how we could live there and be completely happy.  It's a beautiful city and the historical downtown district blows my mind and my  heart out of the water every time I'm there.  Option A.
Number 2. New York.  So everyone who's ever wanted to do something in the arts has moved to NYC.  Yes, it's extremely far fetched to "make it" in that city but my best friend is going there for college and it would give me an excuse to move there too. Seems like my kind of place.
And number 3. Chicago.  I've been told that Chicago was made for me and after looking into it, I kind believe it.  And that's where the production company that I want to be a part of is located, not that that will ever happen.
So basically, I just want a fresh start.  I will get it someday I swear.  Post grad is coming soon! It's time for some serious life decisions.

Peace. Love. Corn.