Guys--I wish I had more time and emotional energy in which to type. This are definitely in a state of change right now... I also wish we lived closer; tonight would be one of those "grab a beer" nights...

I remember the realization walking up my steps to my dumpy Takoma Park house a few years ago--(Grown-up) Life had begun. *This* current situation was now my life; akin it a terminal (academic) degree. (Up until that point, life started after school--and school became my life, adult life never felt as if it had started.) And then, upon that realization--I realized that it had actually been in progress all along, and I just never realized it. Adult life was independent of academic status or degrees.

And then--just this Saturday, I took Court and Ella to the Zoo. We were all in the butterfly sanctuary--and I sat there in reflection, just in wonderment at how good life had turned out.

And today I come into my office... only to wonder where the hell all this responsibility came from. I didn't find life & work related responsibility; it found me. Or so it seemed. Maybe in a while, I'll realize that it was there all along...