the road not taken

A last laugh...

oversized luggage


Originally uploaded by cygnoir.

I can say confidently that I am one of luckiest and happiest people in the world.

Even if I had a professional film crew follow me around every minute I spent in San Francisco, I'm unsure how much intangible goodness could be conveyed to anyone who wasn't participating in the events of my long weekend visiting Halsted.

finally

For as quickly as other things seem to happen in my life... this one has been a very, very long time coming.

My child is almost 7 years old now, yikes. When Savannah was about 5 months old Halsted came to Atlanta to pick a friend up at the airport, and I was lucky enough to have her come meet Savannah and visit for 2 or 3 hours. This was shortly before she moved to San Francisco, of course.

I was lucky enough to meet Halsted, just about 13 years ago, also in January, just as I was starting at EUP. I was absolutely delighted to realize today that she wrote about our meeting in her journal exactly one year from the date I will be seeing her in person again. I am going to San Francisco on Thursday and will be visiting for a few days. She and her very generous flatmate, Char are allowing me to stay with them for a kind-of long weekend.

To say I'm excited is as much an understatement as comparing the Grand Canyon to a pothole.

I've also never flown this far in my life, and while I have been to the West coast before, it was on a driving vacation with my parents in 1989, when we visited Los Angeles and the surrounding area. The very first time I flew alone at age 18, I cried. The last time I flew at all was around Labor Day weekend in September 2001. Not great karma there, for me anyway.

I do need to get back to getting myself ready to be able to go. I have homework and other such things I need to make sure are in place before I go. As well as allow some time for getting pretty and packed and whatnot.

And if I can manage to figure out the scanner, I will post a picture of the most recent evidence of us being in the same room, 6+ years ago. I'm glad I'll be taking the digital camera with me, so there will be lots more soon!