Four weeks from tomorrow I go to New Zealand. I was thinking today, on my two hour walk with Fletcher by the lake front, about how my life feels like it's on fast forward. I graduated, and in two weeks that will be a month ago. I don't know how to slow it down. I'm going to New Zealand to do something I'm afraid of (see: go to a foreign country again and try to get along there), I'm also going to see the love of my 21 year long life. I am nervous about a lot of things, but mostly I am just noticing... read more