After seven years in the system, funds were beginning to get low. When this happened here, it was just perfect timing. The staff here is superb. Everyone is accommodating and very nice. I've met some lovely, lovely people.

It's very much changed since it was the Custer Hotel.

I haven't been involved in the activities yet, but I will be.

That's about all I've really asked for.

Maybe the dharma will deepen in me. I feel like I'm having a brand new beginning. It's a nice celebration.

One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some completely nonsensical way out into the center of the room. Sort of make an idiot out of yourself, essentially, but to be okay with that.