Right now, life is exceedingly good, for many reasons:
1. I love my job.  I'm busy, I like the people I work with, another Hillsdale grad will soon be a colleague, etc.
2. Andrew moved here and is starting a job tomorrow.
3. The weather's been lovely.  I love the cool crispness of fall that makes you want to put on a sweater and feel cozy.
4. I'm surrounded by Hillsdale friends.  One's moving into our apartment complex in a month, one's moving to DC in a week and a half, and one moved to DC recently and started coming to our church and Bible study.
5. The sky was absolutely breathtaking on the way home from work on Tuesday.
6. I feel completely at home at church and love the people there.
7. I've started to pursue law school more seriously, and it's starting to seem like it's really going to happen.
I feel more content now than I have since moving back to DC.  It seems like new, exciting things are happening to me and all my friends and family: new relationships, engagements, babies, moving, new jobs, going to school.  All of these give me immense joy, and I'm relearning to appreciate where God has placed me and all the little blessings He gives me daily.  Like everyone says, the first year out of college is a hard year of readjustment and self-examination.  But, at the end, you emerge a better, more mature person.  I'm still getting to that better, more mature point, but I'm closer than I was last year.
Ok...so...that was pretty touchy-feely.  In other news, Andrew and I are finally going to see the second Pirates of the Caribbean tonight. 
We moved to a new, much bigger apartment at the beginning of August (my rommate and I, not Andrew and I).  I bought a laptop to replace my 1998 Compaq desktop that had served me faithfully (with only one major crash...or was it two?) all through college.  I had to replace it because lightning struck just outside our old apartment, sending a surge through the line that fried our wireless router, our TV (from 1985...people laughed at it, but it worked well!), and my computer.  We now have a respectable flat-screen TV, a new wireless router, and a new laptop for me...and no internet access in our new apartment.  There's been a bit of a saga with Verizon over that...but that's a whole different story.
I love Virginia, but I miss Michigan and my family.

From one of my favorite reads, John McCaslin's Beltway Beat:

BINOCULARS, SIR?

We've written numerous times that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is an avid angler. Now he's being asked to hang up his prized fishing pole and take up another hobby.

Such as?

"Hiking, bird-watching, kayaking or tennis," Erin Edwards, of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, suggests to The Beltway Beat.

PETA has just sent a letter to Justice Scalia saying that "hundreds" of scientists have concluded that fish are smart animals that feel pain in the same way other animals do.

"Fish are intelligent, interesting individuals who lead complex lives," says Edwards, who quotes noted marine biologist Sylvia Earle as saying: "I wouldn't deliberately eat a grouper any more than I'd eat a cocker spaniel."

Speaking of which, says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk, "If Justice Scalia treated cats or dogs the way he treats fish, he would end up in court, but on the other side of the bench."

I know I'm just a heartless conservative who doesn't care about the animals, but my goodness!  "Complex lives"?    I think her definition of complex must be very different from mine.