Quotation Time: Hunger

We hunger to be known and understood. We hunger to be loved. We hunger to be at peace inside our own skins. We hunger not just to be fed these things but, often without realizing it, we hunger to feed others these things because they too are starving for them. We hunger not just to be loved but to love, not just to be forgiven but to forgive, not just to be known and understood for all the good times and bad times that for better for worse have made us who we are, but to know and understand each other to the same point of seeing that, in the last analysis, we all have the same good times, the same bad times, and that for that very reason there is no such thing in all the world as anyone who is really a stranger.

- Frederick Buechner

Four down, two-and-a-half to go

So... It's been a while. Quite a while. Lets recap, shall we? (Hopefully in chronological order, no promises though)

• I was accepted into the Tufts U. graduate program for Occupational Therapy (aka: BSOT - the Boston School of Occupational Therapy)
  
• I graduated from Tufts U. undergrad with my Bachelor of Science in Engineering Psychology with a [completely BSed] minor in Biomedical Engineering.
• As a graduation present we took a family trip to the Philippines. It rocked.
• I was able to attend the New York Live Earth show (which was really in NJ). Thoroughly good times... save the earth!
  
• I am now living in a 3-bedroom apartment in Somerville with Kerry and Audrey. They rock.
• I'm working part-time at the music department doing the usual. The job rocks. (It really does though, great boss, funny coworkers, and money is always nice.)

Overall, life is going pretty well, I don't really have much to complain about (well, besides my inability to keep a phone alive for more than a year and the fact that I lost my beloved T-pass). I am really enjoying my summer and not really looking forward to going back to school. I fear that I'm going to grad school just so I don't have to find a job yet, and partially to appease my dad. Not good reasons, I know, but I'm hoping classes will renew my enthusiasm for school.

I'm not sure if this blog will ever achieve it's former glory. I've gotten too lazy to update consistently, and am not good enough with uploading my photos to my computer to make this a photo blog. I guess we'll just have to see what happens. To leave you with some visual tidbits, a few pictures...


(oh and on a side note here are some ways to increase your gas mileage. Yay environment.)