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While I really like SIL, it's nice to get away from it all occasionally. It's nice to just be able to get out and go for a night on the town. Grand Forks isn't bad at all on the weekends as long as you know the right place to hang out. I just got back from hanging out across the river in Minnesota. It was really great to share in conversation with other people about topics ranging from a school teacher's handling a situation with an abused girl to Benjamin Franklin. As we were leaving, I said something that I thought was really weird, but I feel like telling you.

If there were any period of history that I could live in if given the choice, I guess that I would pick the late nineteenth- early twentieth-century. Back in that period, it was soon enough to have modern conveniences such as electricity and cars, but early enough where you still had empires and kings and queens, and there were still parts of the world that were unexplored. I wish that I could be some rich socialite with a trans-Atlantic identity. I'd probably hope to be some hard-core Methodist/Salvation-Army member in an industrial-revolution England. That just sounds to hardcore awesome, and I don't know why.

I'm weird. Don't tell me that. I already know that.