it's been a long time

No, not since I last updated but since I last read a good book, a really good book, like "The Kite Runner." I just finished it, with a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat. I have to share it with everyone I know because it's a wonderful tale of a boy who grew up in Afghanistan. Khaled Hosseini takes you on a journey, imaginative as well as literary, to get to know the Afghanistan he was born in and the Afghanistan under the Taliban rule and the Afghanistan post-September 11th. It's a beautiful story. If you haven't read it, you really must!

("Mountains Beyond Mountains" is also good but in a different way... I was inspired by Paul Farmer's existence. "The Kite Runner" is a story that is developed, psychological, and with different characters, unlike "MBM.")

I had my first dream last night about The Match. I dreamt that the ceremony took hours to pass out our envelopes. Hours. And they were passing them out in small sessions. I just kept waiting, and waiting, until my name was called... Maybe this is a metaphor for the slow painful wait that we're being tortured with right now? I didn't get to see what was inside the envelope in my dream, so I guess we'll have to wait for Reality.