I'm about to finish my first semester as a doctoral student and I fully intend to write a post about that, but in the meantime I just have to say that I have been seriously lucky with the ward I landed in. Last week I went to church after being gone for three weeks (sick, Utah, sick) and I was shocked at the number of people who came up to me, asked me where I had been, and told me they had missed me. There are just really good people here, and they have been incredibly kind to me. It's always a pleasant surprise to be in a great ward because let's face it, there are some doozies out there (yeah, that's right, I said it.).
Also, as an aside, I just read through that first paragraph and ended up removing three unnecessary commas. Tess Morris, my high school English teacher, would be so proud. Her favorite thing to write on my papers was CS! which of course stood for Comma Splice! Apparently some things never change, even as a doctoral student I am still just trying to please Mrs. Morris.
