Recently returned to my place of birth in Midwest for a little R&R while the little monster hung out with the grandparents. I was terrified that she was going to make the relatively short plane ride as long as humanly possible, but she amazingly...well, amazing!! Almost no crying and lots of sleeping took place which was quite a relief, especially since I was traveling alone.
The trip did make me a little nostalgic for the simpler places in life. Now, don't think that I grew up in the middle of nowhere or anything, I gre up in the capitol of the great state of WI, but things run at a different pace there. Students leisurely read on the grass, people barbecue on their front porches, ride their bikes along the lake, etc. Everything is just more relaxed. Plus people in general are just more pleasant. Now, I am not one of those people who tries to pretend that new yorkers are extremely rude, because that hasn't really been my experience. NY'ers just don't really have time to care that they bumped into you....not to mention that if we apologized to everyone we accidentally bumped into we'd never get anything done.
However, I do tire of the rat race and I want the little monster to be able to play in the grass without taking a train and I want her to know more species of animal than rat, squirrel, and pigeon.
I am entertaining the idea of moving the the west coast for my PhD...probably to Oregon, but it's all still in it's infancy.

In other news, I have been puked on today more times than I would like to count!!!

Have a good one!