Right Here. Right Now.

Fatboy Slim to the rescue.




As well as being a walk-on tune for Norwich City, it says it all in 3:49.  And is in an episode of Breaking Bad.  Whoa, first time I knew something that Wikipedia didn't.

I haven't posted in a while.  Not because I don't have anything to say (true laugh out loud statement). But because...well...

I am home. Here. Now. Back in the saddle.  Back at it again. I have picked up my iPad from DA -- we will be a 1-1 school this coming fall -- done laundry, cooked, baked bread, seen friends, seen movies, read, watched season 1 of The Good Wife and worked my way through Season 2 of The Killing, leisurely walked Simon, worked in the yard and in the garden.  

Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Sounds like a nice life.  And it is, it is.  So what's the fuss?

A good question that I haven't asked?  Far and away the best articulation comes from Marty, in response to me blowing her off on our date to see Magic Mike (proceed with caution but be aware that Channing Tatum really has been a stripper).

I think that, no matter how content that we may be with our regular

lives, we all long to step away from them on occasion and we all

fantasize about what would have happened if we had chosen different

paths.

You stepped away for a full year.  In that time you had the leisure to

work hard on a lot of things that mattered to you, and you were free

of many emotional claims.  People called on you less because you were

removed both physically and by the time difference; you also were

better able to plead unavailability.  Because no one knew you in

Norwich, you were also able to present yourself however you wanted and

to control the nature of your relationships so that you were not taxed

by them.

I think that going away for a sabbatical year is probably a lot like

going off to college.  There are a lot of new things to learn and to

navigate....and your daily duties are stripped down to their bare bones.  

You have lots of new people and new relationships, and you can try 

out being a different "you", if you want.  This is all so freeing.  You also 

have the time to concentrate on the relationships that matter to you.

Now you are back.  You have all the routine things of life to deal

with, including broken air conditioners, work tasks, etc.  You have

your two beloved boys home but this is their first summer home after

being very independent, so it has to feel different.  You don't have

Alice, or Eric, or Rosie.  So there is inevitable let-down. The UK

must be looking really good right now.

Thank you, M.

Onwards.