home again

i rolled back into the spruce street abode yesterday afternoon, after a long day of travelling that was not helped by grumpy united airlines employees and jerky security people. i had to give away a bottle of duty-free tequila en route (the duty free shop lady in mexico city managed to convince me that duty free liquids were A-OK) which made me a very bitter traveler, but it was a relief to be home nonetheless.

it feels a bit like i have been gone forever, and a lot like i was gone for about two weeks. a strange sensation, but still a relatively easy transition.

the water here smells strongly of chlorine, traffic is far more orderly than it seemed before, and three months free from the wrath of telemarketers was so much sweeter than i ever took the time to notice. other than that, it's life as usual.