It's great to be home! I have no commitments this weekend, so I can surf and read mail without any regard whatsoever to the number of minutes that have passed.
(One subsidiary insight from learning Polish in Krakow was how much time I spend on the Internet every day. When you have to vie with 160 others for the use of 12 computers, and time costs about $1 an hour, you really learn how quickly an hour goes, and how to prioritize your surfing.)
Anyways. Our house looks beautiful after 3.5 days of sustained cleaning. If only there were tenants! - but I'm not going to worry about that just yet. It's wearying to think of having to do the same thing all over again in a year, but for the first time in awhile, I'm really juiced about moving back there. I suppose that seeing the house totally empty and clean (for the first time since I left it) is a help. It was hard to think of it as "our house" when it was full of other people's stuff.
It looks like a beautiful day - for a trip to the farmers' market, possibly a bike ride (do I still know how? I haven't even driven in a month!) and oh yes, some work to finish my syllabus and get back in the swing of finishing my summer research assignment.
IT IS GREAT TO HAVE YOU HOME!!!!!
Posted by: The Infamous "B" at August 21, 2005 02:38 PM