Shut down, shmut down!
I cannot fathom that it has been above a month since my pilgrimage to California! Crazier still, it's been over a year since I left the quiet town of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, for the excitement of Chicago, Illinois. This time last year, I'd completed my ACTS training trip and was immersed in my TEFL class - winning $25 for my awesome Lord of the Rings Halloween costume. What a year it has been! It's curious to look back at one's self and hardly recognize the person there! I do believe, if ever there were a year that changed me the most, this would perhaps take the prize (or at least tie with my freshman year of college)! Anyways, we'll save all that sentimental, retrospecting schmuck for the New Year... This past month has been busy - not the kind of busy which demands running about helter-skelter like a mad person with little regard for life or person, but rather the busy which engulfs a person so quietly that one hardly notices the minutes slipping by. The days ha