Ahh...college students are returning to the UI campus. The city seems revived with a buzz of excitement. I heard the marching band practicing outdoors earlier this past week...I had goosebumps. Our church gatherings were completely packed today, and the excitement buzz is here too. Amazing what happens when the city's population increases 150% upon the students' return. It's GO time!

Got my ears pierced today. Been wanting them pierced for the last seven years, but I was five years enrolled with a private Bible college and later worked with a four-star hotel--both of whom prohibit piercings on males. Now that those time periods are no more, I thought now would be a good time to be impaled by the cold steel.