I talked all night to a friend of mine who just so happened to be the person that inspired my dissertation. It feels so good to be around people who understand the things that I want to know more about. She spent the summer in Sophia, where they nod up and down to mean no, and shake their heads left to right to mean yes. She became so comfortable there that she started feeling foreign when she came back to the states and found herself still doing that same thing. People are fucking great. 