Ze Laboratory!

Sitting in an internet cafe in the city that has been my home for a year, whiling away a few hours before I go flag down a cab and begin the long journey home. First stop, Tokyo for one night, then London for one more. I arrive home on a Monday that will probably feel more like Wednesday. I have luggage that's way too heavy and a Japanese cell phone service cancellation fee to pay. I just missed the closing time for the store in town so I'll have to do it in Tokyo tomorrow, with a little luck. I also want to pay my respects to Sleeping Sephy and maybe sit on his face again. ;p

I expect I'll want to sleep for a week afterwards and I can't help but be a little apprehensive. How quickly will I get sick to the gills with the SNAFU that is administration back home? How odd a duck will I be, restarting school at seven years older than the average student in a place where being older on campus practically never happens? At what point is the stress going to have me shrieking, DAMMIT, should have stayed on JET! to the rafters? There is no 'if' about some of these things. The consolation is that I'll have my Honey, and my dogs and I am at last so tired of the endless cycle of packing and moving that I actually WANT to sit still for a few years.

I think I want to go see Machu Picchu.