So yes, in the midst of this whole not being able to access my website thing, I moved to Brookline and started going to library school. I have a fantastic apartment with wonderful roommates, and an amazing neighborhood where everything I need is barely a few steps away. The green line running up and down Beacon Street can take me anywhere I can't walk to. And every time I go outside, it smells like something delicious is cooking somewhere.

At last I feel really, really independent. I felt independent to a point at Colgate, but it wasn't my own money keeping me there, and if I wanted to get out of town I needed a ride. But now I can do whatever I want, and my life is almost totally under my own control. And there's nothing that makes me happier than that.

When the red line train pulled into Central Square Sunday night it opened its doors and greeted me with an unexpected treat -- a subway car all to myself. I had never been in an entirely empty subway car before and I wasn't quite sure what to do about it. I sat, and then I stood, and then I walked around and sat someplace else. Then I thought, when am I ever going to have this opportunity again? So I got up and ran around the subway car and twirled and frolicked. And when we crossed the Charles I pressed my face against the window to look at the city skyline at night, like I always wanted to but frequently couldn't. But by the time we pulled into the Charles Street station I was sitting calmly as though nothing had happened, and there was no way that the man who got on at that stop could have known that the entire subway car had been my playground just a few minutes before.

Behold, the new website.

I have no idea how I'm going to set up a redirect from the old website as I can't seem to access it anymore.

Furthermore, all the links pretty much point back to the people.colgate website. I know. I have a lot of fixing to do.

But, look! Functionality!