Took a lot of time off for artistic training, among other things. Went to Ecuador for three months between November 2011 and February 2012, learned and forgot how to speak Spanish; went to New Mexico for a month (April 2012?) to see my goddaughter's family and ended up meeting Doc, my partner in crime; came back, went to work at camp for that summer; got out, went to college for the semester; mother messed up her knee on towards the end of the semester and I ended up doing all the driving and errand-running for two households for three months; father started having near-strokes on a regular basis at around the same time; had a big one the nig