It's really weird for me to think that it's been over four years since I graduated high school. Sometimes I feel like it's been longer, sometimes I feel like it was yesterday. Crazy. What brought this on was that I started chatting with a friend from high school yesterday. He gave me an update on himself, and some other friends, and it just blew me away to think of these boys who are now getting their graduate degrees in smartness. How are we already out of college? It was very nice chatting with him though-- the only people I still keep in touch with are Ank, Susan and Bonnie. Hooray for old friends!

As an California native/Washington D.C. transplant, it's very interesting to observe the differences in culture and lifestyle between the two. Biggest difference: where are all the Asians? Going to Lynbrook and living in Sunnyvale has skewed my perspective-- to see so few Asians/aZns around is weird. Cmon yellow folk! Rise up! Fight the white establishment that is Washington D.C.!! Also, people are a lot more anal here, and show up/start things on time (unless their Asian. some things don't change no matter where you are). Now, the Midwest is a whole other story. It's more like the East Coast than the West Coast, I think. Honestly, I'm not such a huge fan of the Midwest. I love Chicago, but that's about it. I need scenery, mountains, oceans, hills. Corn fields and farms just don't do it for me.

Time to get some work done. The day to day grind is starting to wear me out. I really need Thanksgiving vacation, to refresh my mind and my soul. You know, I used to think that when I graduated, my spiritual life would not suffer that much. When I heard about people who graduated and fell away, I would think that they were lame, and be so disappointed in what I percived to be their weakness/laziness. But now that I'm here, I realize just how easy it is to forget about God, to not think about the state of my spiritual life without the small groups/ prayer meetings/ accountability to fill my mind and my heart. This whole 9-5 thing, combined with my inherent laziness, is seriously doing a number on my spiritual life. Something to work on, I guess. Anyways, that was a tangent. What I meant to say was-- I can't wait till Thanksgiving!