5 days!

Stuff I learned how to do, courtesy of the Peace Corps application process:

• Condense a semester's worth of cross-cultural experience into 500 words
• Schedule doctors' appointments
• Schedule dentists' appointments
• Schedule oral surgeons' appointments
• Navigate southern Maryland public transportation
• Find way home after navigation failures
• Ride the DC Metro
• Keep size-9-wide shoes on my feet by stuffing socks into the toes
• Ride a creepy elevator without dying
• Check e-mail compulsively
• Check mailbox compulsively
• Curse the existence of wisdom teeth 
• Praise the existence of FedEx
• Not panic.

I also gained a collection of amusing stories involving bus rides, postal workers, and "abnormal" urine.