I've been feeling more and more like Portland State is going to be the place. I was looking at some of the instructors for this fall's classes and discovered that Karin Miles (lectures on Mindfulness and CR) is part of the Interfaith Spiritual Center. I'm just blown away because if there's anything like that around here I've never come across it. I know these kinds of progressive institutions may exist in the South but they're few, far between, and not that easy to find. It's just another good feeling I have about going somewhere else for grad school.