I am in New York City with Bilbo and Monty till the 8th . . . and then I will go to Montreal. If you are here as well, please let me know! OK?

i would kill for a woman to say this to me

me

hey look, the airline left all my luggage in amsterdam! that’s great news for me, who is on the other side of the planet

I am at Berlin Airport . . . I fly to Amsterdam in an hour, and then onward to Washington, DC. I did not sleep last night on account of I figured I’d try to sleep while flying across the Atlantic. Doing this usually helps me completely skip over feeling jet-lagged. According to the seat map, the plane isn’t even half-full, which is great news because flying on a full international flight is true misery. So I got a window seat and a row all to myself . . . and my dumb little vegetarian meal. Wow!

This weekend I am taking a bus to New York City to see all the little angels I know there. As it happens, both my friends Cera and Molly will be there, which I had not anticipated. Gotta say: I love serendipity . . .

Next week I’ll rent a car and drive north through upstate New York into Vermont and across the border into Quebec, where I’ll see Laura and her sisters in Montreal. I was there last year and I’m real glad to go back. We’re all going to La Ronde amusement park and everything. Laura says it’s on an island they made using dirt from digging out the subway tunnels.

And then I have my cousin’s wedding to go to . . . and from there I will head south through New Orleans to Dallas and Austin and Albuquerque and LA and the Bay Area, where McCune and I will set off on a road trip all over the West, and ending up in Montana, which is one of five states I’ve never visited.

And then . . . !

I spent a lot of today crying, but now everything’s coming up Milhouse, baby!!

Nicole and Bex called me from a mariner pub in London . . . I actually went to that pub with Nicole when I was in London back in May. They told me they were carving stamps out of rubber and I asked for proof, which I promptly received doubly. To be honest, I desperately needed someone to call me on the phone, such is my loneliness, so it was a nice thing. And two for the price of one! I only wish I had been there with them . . . well, I reckon I was in some ghostly sense~

tis true (i was also baked lol)