The summer is now almost gone and the fall semester will soon be upon me. Arrrgghhh. It is good though. I hope to be able to really step out of this shell I seem to have formed around myself in the last few years. I am living with my brother, John, and some other guys in a house in Salt Lake so this next year should be a ton of fun.

I spent the summer back home in St. Louis (as can be read about in previous posts) and I just got back to Salt Lake City a few days ago. However, I didn’t stay long. It was less than 24 hours before I was on a plane to Long…