You mentioned it's been about a year since you graduated college. Me too--a few days and I come to my one-year anniversary of being in the "real world"! Honestly, I don't know if I should be saying congratulations or I'm sorry. I went straight to work after graduation as an office manager for a small data processing company, and if you've ever seen "Office Space," you know the drudgery that my life entailed. After nine months of that, I quit and went to law school. Now my first semester final exams are upon me and I'm hating life yet again, only for brand new reasons. Nothing remotely compares to college, does it? Anyway, I just wanted to give you a shout-out. It seems like you've done quite a bit with your life, and I only hope the last year of it was more fulfilling than mine!