I'm now in Chicagoland. I realize that my last post was from the greater Bay Springs, Mississippi area. I realize this.

Here's my other realization. I'm kind of a gypsy. I have had this realization in that I am not really employed, I work just a tad, that is, long enough to be poor, and then I go off places. Like Chicago. Or Mississippi. Or Texas. Or Cambodia. Add to this the element of mystery current surrounding my life (apparently I'm vastly mysterious), and that I take trains, and poof! I'm a gypsy. Not ethnically, of course, but you understand what I'm saying.

Speaking of trains, that's how I got from Little Rock, AR, to Joliet, Il. It took me from Wednesday morning at 12:30-ish until about 4:30 Wednesday afternoon. You do the math. It was a long time, but I read a good bit of church history and finished watching the second season of the American The Office. I also slept, ate mysteriously tasty chocolate chip cookies, and looked as the midwest whizzed past my window. I spent most of today in the observation car, not in my seat. And I think it's better that way. Big windows, spacious, and a plug-in for my laptop... thus the tv watching.

If I tried to explain my itinerary for the next month, it would be wasted, because it requires drawing diagrams and whatnot. Suffice it to say that I'll be starting school in Conway on August 21.

T