Goodbye (and Thank You)

Oakmont, PA

Home. I flew back to Pittsburgh yesterday, meeting my family at the airport and returning home after 290 days of service with Americorps NCCC. My swirling emotional mix continues; despite my relief and pride at having completed the program, I know I will never see the majority of the people I served with again. With that in mind, I'd like to wish everybody from Denver farewell, and all the best wishes in the future. It was a hell of a ride.

Americorps NCCC
Class XIV
Central Region
Sun Four

Carly Colgan - Team Leader
Gina Bianchini
Travis Cambra
Megan Cuneo
Zach Farmer
Dulce Garcia
Gatien Gaujac
Atiya Rideout
Meredith Sortwell
Vanessa Staff
Britney Sutcliffe

So, what's next? I wish I knew. I'm planning on going back to school in for the fall semester in 2009, but I have yet to put in any formal applications. For the next few months, I will be living in Pittsburgh and trying my best to find employment until the summer, when I will (hopefully) be working back up at Sheldon Calvary Camp in Ohio. Life goes on.

Not for this humble little online journal, though. I started it in January 2008 with the intention of keeping a record of my term of service. I think I've accomplished that fairly well, and I have decided to shutter it for the time being. It will still be online, and people will still be able to comment, but I will not be regularly updating it as I have been previously. Mind you, this is a temporary decision; if in the future, I end up going off on another half-cocked adventure (or, y'know, something that I've put a lot of thought and planning into...but that wouldn't be my style, really) I will resurrect it. God knows this thing isn't exactly an example of brilliant writing, but I have had a lot of fun getting my thoughts and experiences down. I think the very act of recording such things has helped me develop both my thinking and writing, and thus it has served the purposes I set for it in the very first post I made almost a year ago.

To anybody who has come across this blog, thank you for taking the time to read and comment. Seeing the feedback and responses that people have left has been very gratifying, and I greatly appreciated it. I have a Facebook (Zach Farmer, Catholic '10) , telephone (412 480 0104) and I use Instant Messenger (parrthd07) all too often, so please keep in touch.

With that, this is Zach Farmer signing off...for the moment.