and i'm back

so i know its been awhile and the only excuse i can conjure up is that i just have not made any time to post updates over the past few months. in order to remedy that i will give a condensed, bulleted, overview of my life;

*went to cincinnati, served in one of my best friend's wedding, visited wilmington, realized i made a very good decision about a year and a half ago, became an eskimo brother with a great friend (again) and...reunited with friends who i do not get to see very often

graduate school- the next step in my educational frontier

there seems to be a natural order of things when you think about education. many of us start out with our parents placing us in pre-school. at this point in our lives we usually think of it as the mecca of play dates, upwards of twenty children our age all with the same list of worries in life; will i get to play with the giant blocks, when will i ever be coordinated enough to cut circles instead of continually cutting the corners in hopes that eventually it will be somewhat round, and will my mom make a pb and j again for lunch while i watch sesame street at home.
next we may head into a second year of preschool (which in my case ended up to be mrs. walkers class) or suddenly find ourselves diving head first into kindergarten. still relatively minor, but i remember the daunting task of