Yesterday, I sent in my official acceptance of admission to the Freie Universität Berlin (the Free University, Berlin). I may or may not have kissed the envelope before sticking it into the post office box. I also think that I put too many first class stamps on it, but I am deeply afraid that it will be lost in the mail. In the next few months, a little ID card with my name and (unfortunate Wallgreens) picture on it will be laminated and sent to my little home in Northern California.

And at the beginning of February, that little ID card will find its way into my wallet and back to the streets of a new city where, I hope, anything is possible.

For now I had better get back to the important things in life. Or rather, my schoolwork.