Monday, 11 March 2002 | Content

It feels like I've been away forever; when I return to Raleigh on Wednesday, it'll seem like it went by too fast. It always happens that way, doesn't it? Well I'm definitely enjoying myself, and I do feel like I've dropped out of the world, which is just what I needed. I haven't had a chance to process what I've done or what I'm doing; I'm leaving that for when I get back, when I'll make an insufficient summary of the highlights accompanied with a few pictures. I will say that there are now fewer strangers living in my computer, that on Saturday I got hit in the head with a kickball, and that my site didn't win, which is just how I wanted it. In fact, there was a moment just after the awards ceremony in which I was perfectly content, a feeling so rare that I almost forgot it existed.