Again I find myself bewildered by where to start now that I have some time to get back to my blog. Its been a crazy month. I am finally done with my semester, which ended well though with a frenzy of projects, studying and crits. I am still waiting to pick up some of my work and document what I did over the fall, but It was a busy semester. I took 5 classes, 4 being studio classes. But more on that later...

Outside of school, Scope, Pen and Sword / PS-Design and all of the other ventures associated with our recently formalized network, the Grassroots Grind Group are proceeding with a life of their own. We are all working on our respective projects and launches and its exciting to see everything happen so fast and new people coming in to the fold. I have nothing but hope for the upcoming year.

On the home front, things have been bittersweet. Last Saturday, we had to put down Blizzard, our loyal hound for the past 14 years. We got her during the April fool's blizzard which was to be her namesake of '97 when she was still a puppy and she had become a family fixture. All of our friends and neighbors knew her, and indeed loved her. She was the reason some people got dogs, the reason some got over their phobia of them. For us she was a reason to leave the house, even in the darkest and most miserable conditions, a wellspring of unconditional simple love, a dish washer and food disposal, a foot warmer and heat hogger. We will miss her very much.