Ok, I’m here…

Hey ya’ll. I’ve spent the last 48 hours playing catch up since getting back home and am really no closer to normal than I was when I landed. There’s probably a lesson here somewhere that I’m missing.

But I’m back. Back to my wonderful house, my amazing girlfriend, a warm group of friends and a foggy, everything-is-important city that I’ve grown to love. I guess it was much easier packing up my room and closing the door on the home I grew up in and Ann Arbor, the town of my birth, since I knew I had somewhere to go. Somewhere else where the streets now seemed intuitive, where day had a harmony of their own, where my life as a grown man and not a kid could leap off from and soar. Somewhere like home.

I had lunch with Derek this morning and wrapped up the trip. After Ann Arbor, 4 days in New York spent mostly in meetings with publicists, agents and a few CBers, followed by stumping as my friend Joanna’s date to a wedding in Saratoga Springs and then 2 days at Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires with my folks. A very productive, way-too-long jet stream across 3 states that I shant repeat again. Next summer, shorter, more frequent trips.

And now I’m back. I’ve got a review due for SF Station on Tuesday, helping out with Fray Day 6, pulling a book proposal together, contributing stories to a local radio program, and hooking back up with everyone I’ve missed. Oh and my birthday is next week.

My dad once said to me that the sign of a great vacation is that you are eager to leave and eager to come back. This then was a great vacation.

So hey there. How have you been?

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