American vacation
I'm leaving for the U.S. tomorrow, and people, I simply cannot tell you how much I've been looking forward to this. My time in Dubai has been a roller coaster... definitely worthwhile, and often incredibly fun, but very trying sometimes too. I'll post some darker stories after I come home for good, in August.
Four months in Dubai has felt much longer to me than the ten months I spent in Paris. Obviously, Dubai as a city isn't comparable to Paris, but I don't think that's why it feels different. Just like in Paris, I have friends here and plenty to do to keep me busy. It isn't the cities, but I who have changed.
27 is very different than 21. In those six years I've become a new person, and one of the big changes, I've realized, has been my level of attachment to family and friends. My family knows we've always been close, but it's fundamentally different now that I'm an adult. I've missed my family -- my extended family on both sides, but especially my mom, dad, and sister -- far more powerfully than I did when I lived in France. Back then, I missed them like a teenager, which is to say... not that much. At least, not so much that it bothered me.
Missing your family as an adult is almost a regression. It's like being a child again. A small child feels the absence of family very sharply, and so have I.
Anyway, I'll be in Washington, DC between Friday, April 29 and Monday, May 9. I am so excited to see my family and my friends, I can't put it into words. If you're an out-of-town friend or relative, can you please give me a call sometime that week? Day or night is OK. I know it's crass to ask in such an impersonal way, but I don't care, because I want to talk to a lot of people and I won't have a chance for three more months after this. I would call out, but I don't know your schedules, whereas you know mine: I'm basically free all eleven days. Call me at (£0%) 7&4-7*^9***. And check back in to the website -- I'll try to post a few times. And if anybody wants a souvenir from Paris, where I'm stopping, better ask me real soon.
***Internet freaks: Do not call.
Four months in Dubai has felt much longer to me than the ten months I spent in Paris. Obviously, Dubai as a city isn't comparable to Paris, but I don't think that's why it feels different. Just like in Paris, I have friends here and plenty to do to keep me busy. It isn't the cities, but I who have changed.
27 is very different than 21. In those six years I've become a new person, and one of the big changes, I've realized, has been my level of attachment to family and friends. My family knows we've always been close, but it's fundamentally different now that I'm an adult. I've missed my family -- my extended family on both sides, but especially my mom, dad, and sister -- far more powerfully than I did when I lived in France. Back then, I missed them like a teenager, which is to say... not that much. At least, not so much that it bothered me.
Missing your family as an adult is almost a regression. It's like being a child again. A small child feels the absence of family very sharply, and so have I.
Anyway, I'll be in Washington, DC between Friday, April 29 and Monday, May 9. I am so excited to see my family and my friends, I can't put it into words. If you're an out-of-town friend or relative, can you please give me a call sometime that week? Day or night is OK. I know it's crass to ask in such an impersonal way, but I don't care, because I want to talk to a lot of people and I won't have a chance for three more months after this. I would call out, but I don't know your schedules, whereas you know mine: I'm basically free all eleven days. Call me at (£0%) 7&4-7*^9***. And check back in to the website -- I'll try to post a few times. And if anybody wants a souvenir from Paris, where I'm stopping, better ask me real soon.
***Internet freaks: Do not call.
posted by Eric at 2:48 AM
7 Comments:
We're excited about your trip home too. You've been missed!
Putting the phone number out there on the Internets. Risky indeed.
Cannot wait to see you! Call me when you get in. It will be a great weekend.
Reg and Jem
Wait a second ... are you talking about Paris HILTON or do you mean the city?
Damn it! What did I tell you kids?
Yeah, I'm talking to you, you little hippie freaks. Didn't I tell you to stop messing around on the Capitol lawn? Don't act like you didn't hear me when I stuck my head out the window earlier. I saw you look up. I saw you laughing. Punks! I told you to clear out and take your games somewhere else. Then, not 15 minutes later, this thing sails right through the window and interrupts deliberations of the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Oh yeah? Is that so? Well, guess what. It's Tom DeLay's Frisbee now.
That frisbee thing reminds me of one of the "questions" I snuck by Bob Levey back in the heyday of the Bob Levey Game. I believe that was the day I set a world record of SEVEN Levey snookers. Now that Levey is retired, my record will stand for all eternity.
ERIC!!!! i cant wait to see you either doll. your thing made me get all teary. ooohhhhhh I MISS YOU TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i know what you meant.......:) see you tonight!
sis
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