So the year is winding down and its time for everyone up here to go their separate ways for 3 months.  I honestly don't know what to think of this year in general.  It was a definite improvement over last year for a number of reasons.  Reasons which I won't go into specific detail about, but nonetheless were reasons enough to make me feel that things were getting better.  I guess you could say that this is my sappy end of the year blog in which I reminisce about all of the things that occured these past nine months.  Well it kinda is.  I've made a whole lot of new friends, learned a little bit more about myself, and made a important decisions that I know for sure will shape the rest of my life.  I always get all sentimental and mushy around this time of year only because I know full well that I'm gonna miss this place.  For all of the whining and bitching I do about wanting to go home, when I'm actually there in Long Beach, all I can think about are how my buddies from NorCal are doing.  I suppose that what they say is right.  The grass IS always greener on the other side.  Putting that aside, it doesn't diminish the fact that this place, and more importantly, the people in it, hves been good to me and I couldn't see myself enjoying myself nearly as much if I were anywhere else.  So for now, I shall take my leave.

See you later Santa Cruz.  I'll be back before you know it.