So far there's been long talks, enjoying friendships because I've stopped evaluating them - so hopefully forgetting the calculations that come with getting older. I smell strongly of chopped onions because of cooking for the 1c potluck. Christmas and the good awkwardness (because I can't stop pushing at the wall until it collapses into soap and all we can do is laugh for a while because American slowness is catching up to me as a positive thing i.e. patience) you get with seeing old faces. Had lunch with my mum and Auntie Stella because they wanted to go to Arab Street to buy materials to make beaded handbags and we all had a good talk about visiting Australia and marrying the right person and how sisters can be very different and exactly why I shouldn't get a nose-ring.
An earthquake in Taiwan has disrupted Internet access, so I'm typing this in Word. I hope Yu-Hsin, Judith, Harriet and Ruth's family and everyone else whos's gone home and/or have families there are okay. If you can read this now good for both of us.