Just a side note...

My roommates and I have recently started watching The Wire. We're only a few episodes in, but there it is already chock full of intrigue, mystery, and just plain violence. It's a great show, but really intense! And it makes me really glad that the challenge I've become passionate about is education and not drugs... I don't think I'd make it on the streets of Baltimore, as a cop or anyone else. And now every time I complain about the environment here, there will be a little part of my brain that will remember to be glad I'm not fighting crime and bureaucracy.