My vague and overly-general goodbyes (which also include a long overdue thank-you to Brian)

By the time you read this, I will be on the road and heading east for Baltimore.

At no time since I set this application process into motion in June of 2011 did I ever really feel, on a visceral level, that I was actually going to end up in some other place, doing some other thing. For the last year, the future has always seemed, to me, like it will be e…