Horn of plenty, cornucopia, grab bag, round up… yes. That.
Saturday, February 21st, 2009Right, so it’s a month since I posted. This makes me sort of lame. Or busy. Or lamely busy. Or just forgetful.
So, anyway:
Christmas vacations finished up and were grand. We were happy be there, but in the end I think we were probably as happy to get going. A month is a long time to camp in your half empty house and stay with relatives. Also, as much as we have issues with Dunedin, it’s now home and all of our stuff is here.
Part of the problem is that we had a ton of stuff that we didn’t get sorted before we left to deal with. So we finished moving stuff out of the house and got Metro all ready for shipping (NZ animal import rules are pretty strict).
On the way home we went to San Francisco for a few days. As usual SF is like a tonic for our collective souls, we always seem to be happier and calmer there. For the last two visits there we have used my travel points to stay at the Hotel Kabuki in Japantown. Japantown is cool because it’s a bit calmer and quieter than the main downtown areas but is close enough to a lot of cool stuff that it’s walkable. Cow Hollow, Hayes Valley etc are all aboug 15 - 20 minutes away. This time we got our act together and hooked with our buddy Andrew and had dinner with him at an Italian place he recommended…
After this sort of vacationy fun we got on the plane for Auckland, and then Dunedin and back to reality. I’ve been hard at the job search, with some luck, since we got back. Lucas has started his first real year of school and can suddenly write in nice even letters and has fully deployed his “how?” “why?” phase… (A sample: Papa? How does electricity work? Me: how the hell would I know, I failed physics…). Chris is working away at PhD stuff: proposals, lit review, reading reading always reading…
So life’s rhythms are back to normal and, as much as it’s not really home yet, it is good to be back.