So I must say, my Christmas Break was excellent. I got to spend time reading great books like Jonathan Safran Foer's, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," and Daniel Taylor's "Tell Me a Story." Both really fascinating books, one a novel about September 11th and the other a non-ficion book about the power of stories. I also got to hang out with some friend and family, and my friend Julianne came to visit, so now we've both been home with each other.

Aside from having a great break I've had a pretty interesting return to school. My classes are all great and I'm really excited about the Justice and Prison class I'm taking which meets in a minimum security prison and some of my classmates will be prisoners (who we call insiders--we're called outsiders). I have a couple of friends who've already taken the class and they said it's an extremely powerful learning experience, so I'm excited to have my life shaped by the stories of people I most likely would never get to know or hear from.