Island of the Lone Sane Thought

36 days. Y'know, after a month of being away, it really starts to seem like I'm never coming home, in a way, and my mind and body adjust--and then I come back home. So I'm just trying to figure out what this house is, what this life is, what I should be doing now now now. I'm in a spacy kind of daze.

The trip was quite fun, as it can be, and we had lots of adventures. Chiefly the Five Hundred Miles of Ice Death Defying Drive. We drove through scary stuff on our way to AZ. There were cars in the ditches everywhere and jackknifed semis and it was really frightening.

I wish I could remember the fun things and the amusing little exchanges. There were so many funny moments. But I didn't write anything down, and now it's all a big mess in my head.

The one thing that stands out about this is that I think it was my last trip to AZ. 95% certain. This is the twelfth year that I've gone there, and I think it's my last. This makes me really sad in some ways, and not as sad in others. But it's probably for the best.

I meant to write while I was there. Instead, I read. And took down notes for the Original Fantasy Novel That Might Get Written Eventually. And I came up with an idea for a Riptide story (okay, fine, I wrote about thirty of them in my head, but this one might actually get written) after compulsively reading The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. I went through this brief 'Nam period several years ago, and now that I've been reading Riptide fanfic and thinking about their backgrounds, I find that I'm once again fascinated with 'Nam. I've read a couple of the stories in tTTC before, but this was years ago, and it was a revelation to read them again. I really think I need to write this story.

My Google Reader for blogs is backed up by 945 entries, lol. I don't even want to think about how far back LJ is for me at this point. So for the next couple days I'll be catching up. I regret to inform you all that I will be speed reading and might not catch every single facet of your entries. :(

Missed you all. Missed the internet like a physical thing. Could not stop thinking about S&H h/c stories and wanting to read them. Grah. Still, so glad to be home.