So maybe I'm not going to work for IC after all. (Do not be deceived. I will probably work with IC for as long as IC exists.) The Peace Corps has always been an option in the back of my mind, but upon evaluating and reevaluating and actually being serious about my options for post-college life, it is definitely the most potentially rewarding option. It's a 27 month commitment, and I don't get to decide where I go (although I do get to state my preference)... so it's clearly the most terrifying option... but as a good friend consistently reminds me, you're never truly living unless you're in a state of discomfort. And it's so true. Upon realizing that, I knew what it was I had to do. I'm not going to spend thousands to go to the place of my choosing for a little while to do a very specific, directed, repeated, generic job that I choose based on my own wants. That gives me very little to live and to learn... and even less to help. Peace Corps it is... wish me luck!

"Don't get too involved with IC. It will ruin your life.... but in the best possible way."

Laren said that at the conference, and it is probably the truest thing I've ever heard. I can't get away from it lately, because we've been away from school so there's been a lot less IC/S4S stuff to be doing, and I'm going through withdrawal. I've spent two years being involved and six months being totally immersed in it, and now I'm just dying to get started again. I'm applying for a fall GO internship and also the next roadie group, I've got big plans for the underground-army national-event (now accepting volunteers for help... this is going to be a huge job), there's so much to be done with the IIS project, I've got so many screenings I want to do, there's the benefit concert, the roadies are coming back in March!.... and in this exact moment in time, there's nothing concrete I can do about any of this. raaahr!

I'm officially out of the running for the HERO awards. It was disappointing at first, but it shouldn't be. I am, after all, officially a bronze HERO, which makes me one of IC's top 100- and that's really freakin' cool. Sure, I don't get a plaque, or a free trip to DC, or a free trip to Uganda, but top 100 isn't bad.... it's not bad at all.