So I'm not going to lie; i've had a really hard week. But just when it seems to get to the breaking point, it always picks back up and rewards you for sticking it out. It's funny how life works out like that.

It appears, and I don't want to be uber confident, that I got an externship in January at a place in Arlington, TX. I'll hold off on talking too much about it right now, but it's an incredible opportunity and probably one of the best placements I could have ever hoped for. It's exactly what I want to do, with a Chef who I genuinely respect and have enjoyed speaking with several times, in a city with a lot of connections. It put a nice smile on my face today when I heard the news. I say I'm confident, but there's a few small technicalities that keep me from getting too excited, but I'm feeling pretty good.

So I think from Jan 23rd - June 18th, I'll be living it up in Dallas with Lee, Whitney close by, and a great opportunity that I wonder if I even deserve. I try to explain the significance of how I ended up in this and how rare these externships are; but suffice to say, there's probably 100 in the country, and I snuck into one of them.