i'm not sure what i'm expecting, what kind of penultimate coming together, some communion before the end. (but where's my reverence in this final month-long walk to the altar? and then the week and a half to swallow and turn?) but i do know that i'm not quite ready, that i love these people and this place, and that i don't want to become Marvell-esque quite yet, because i do have world enough, and time...