Thank you everyone. It's just so damned hard when you can't be around your friends, and you can't attend the memorial, and all you can do is send a card. It sucks. But I really appreciate the memorial.
It didn't help that today's assignment was a map of your training and experiences. Nancy figured so much into my map, I couldn't help but break down in tears when I was introducing everything. I'm only here on an MA because she encouraged and encouraged *rather forcefully* that I get my BA.
I did my map in the form of a dance I choreographed and I told my group what had happened as I introduced myself. I then said "Nancy always was a big proponent of the "suck it up and use it" methodology of performance, and so that's what I'll be doing today." So, I sucked it up and used my emotions to help tell my story. I hope she would have been proud.