Never more will trouble us.

I got an email today from an old professor of mine, Konstantin Dierks. He teaches in the history department and I took a beginning U.S. history course with him last year. We have since kept in touch and he has added me to what he calls his "A-Team." It's a group of several past students who have stood out as being "interesting and strange," as he put it. Or something. My placement on this email list was finalized after lunch this past fall. We met at Chow Bar on Indiana and talked about culture, Italy, film, music, my plans for the future, etc. He has written letters of recommendation for me in the past and kindly corresponds when he has time. Well, he has a newborn so we haven't been in touch often. Finally I got this email today and was delighted to hear from him. Amazing how contact with other people can be so fantastically uplifting.

I checked out the other students on the email list. Michael Sanserino is one of them. I laughed. Sanserino is the editor in chief of the Indiana Daily Student newspaper here on campus. We worked together last semester. He landed a summer internship with the Wall Street Journal. I feel happy to be on the same email list as him. I feel happy to know we both have intellectual curiousity.

More later, I suppose. Just a short update.

It is finally spring here in Bloomington. The trees are so lovely. Life is springing from every branch, and the sticky little flowers are opening to the sunshine. The smell the blooming trees release is almost intoxicating. It's thick and sweet and warm. I am delighted and content.