modern day travel makes fantasy of space and time. i know it and tonight i feel it. my dad unexpectedly popped in this evening from dc for a 24 hr. business stint. we just visited but in my mind's eye he's sleeping tonight in his bed in dc, not at the argent hotel. i had no time to mentally prepare for the shift. neither can i comprehend how 20 minutes and a very familiar highway ride ago i dropped off my favorite friend at the airport who, in a days worth of minutes and hours, will be in vietnam beginning a new life there; a world i won't be able to create no matter how many emails we send back and forth. it is *his* leaving in particular that is causing this sudden awareness of how commonplace it is becoming to jump from one life into another across this shrinking planet. eric has been one of the essentials of my sf life for the last two years-i've left and come back but now that he's dug up his roots too, it's easiest to imagine ourselves as little gas particles, likely to only bump into each other rarely, randomly, and quickly in our newly energized states. (the preciousness of time close to those you love so that you are participating in eachother's lives not just hearing about them, is really starting to sink in this year)
so not only newly energized, but i'm unemployed, happily back home in sf and am already feeling the vacuum that comes when you knock down all your plans start pulling in new options from all directions. this blog is one of them and i'm curious to see how i'll use it. somehow eric's leaving seems like the perfect kickoff for the endeavor: anything i type here would otherwise be something we'd have talked about and the techy flavor of this substitute is also purely a product of his influence. so there, broke the stage fright.
Inaugural post. Testing out the system. When Devon finally overcomes her stage fright, we'll have posts from her.
-e