Back to the real world. Wait, not yet-

Okay. Last week was unreal and unusual for a number of reasons.

1) Some stuff happened in my family that shook me up quite a bit.

2) I house/dogsat for my aunt, which was a change of scenery and such.

3) A friend was in town.

4) As most of the world now knows, the 35W bridge collapsed, which hit close to home (literally) for a number of reasons. I frequent the bridge often enough, as I live a block from it on one side of the river and attend classes and work right on the other side. I was there when it happened, and I was understandably shocked.

5) Two of my best friends returned from a summer in Europe, so we had a lot of catching up to do.

6) I'm reading up on buddhism more, which, while interesting, has yet to convince me of its applicability in my life. Still, it has thrown my theological mind for a loop or two.

7) Some other things came up that needed addressing. (In other words, things happened that I am choosing not to discuss in the public forum.)

In all this, I was mostly unable to research. Now I am working for a camp this week and will be unable to research as much as I'd like, again. So, certain things will have to wait one more week. The campers are playing board games as I participate in metaphorical, mental games of my own in order to process the happenings of last week. Is that blog-entry-real enough?