The eagle has landed...
May. 6th, 2006 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morleyroarlyYes kids, that's right, I'm back in the Bay Area! I arrived Wednesday at 2pm. I'll be leaving again next Friday the 12th on a 2 month road trip around the US.
Now that I've shown up on the maximum number of doorsteps to amplify my surprise homecoming, I figure I can tell y'all that I've returned.
Culture shock doesn't feel as broad and US-government-society based as I'd expected - for the past 8 months I've been thinking enough about the differences in municipal waste, grocery stores, vehicular traffic and urban planning that they're not a huge surprise.
The bigger surprise is *social* culture shock. Being around friends, having the rare opportunity to have a fairly removed window-view into my social life, is fascinating and not just a little disturbing. Not that y'all are disturbing people - quite the contrary, I've been impressed by how much my friends and loved ones have their shit together and are fascinating people. But.. you're so.. SAN FRANCISCAN! It's all taking quite a bit of getting used to. And just in time for me to leave again!
If you want to see me between now and Friday, the best way to do that is to ply me with a Costco membership - I need someone to accompany me to get new tires for BonBon. Any takers?
Love and kisses from Le Palace in Berkeley! (Thank you J & Z - your down comforter is the most divine blissful manifestation of western superiority that I've encountered thus far!)
PS: My previous journal entry has been made public. It explains, in part, my reasons for returning home earlier than originally planned.
Now that I've shown up on the maximum number of doorsteps to amplify my surprise homecoming, I figure I can tell y'all that I've returned.
Culture shock doesn't feel as broad and US-government-society based as I'd expected - for the past 8 months I've been thinking enough about the differences in municipal waste, grocery stores, vehicular traffic and urban planning that they're not a huge surprise.
The bigger surprise is *social* culture shock. Being around friends, having the rare opportunity to have a fairly removed window-view into my social life, is fascinating and not just a little disturbing. Not that y'all are disturbing people - quite the contrary, I've been impressed by how much my friends and loved ones have their shit together and are fascinating people. But.. you're so.. SAN FRANCISCAN! It's all taking quite a bit of getting used to. And just in time for me to leave again!
If you want to see me between now and Friday, the best way to do that is to ply me with a Costco membership - I need someone to accompany me to get new tires for BonBon. Any takers?
Love and kisses from Le Palace in Berkeley! (Thank you J & Z - your down comforter is the most divine blissful manifestation of western superiority that I've encountered thus far!)
PS: My previous journal entry has been made public. It explains, in part, my reasons for returning home earlier than originally planned.
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Date: 2006-05-06 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-06 08:48 pm (UTC)I'm actually in Santa Cruz right now.. but I don't have any free time, I have to leave early for LA this weekend cuz I have a final on tuesday morning and I'm spending all of today and tomorrow studying.
Next weekend I'm in LA, its USC's commencement ceremonies.. (I technically graduate at the end of summer term, but this is the last term of classes -- I'm taking research units in the summer -- and so this is when I have an opportunity to walk). My parents are in town.. so is Molly.. they're meeting Molly's parents.. its all quite amusing.
If you're in the LA area at all during your road trip just let me know!
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Date: 2006-05-06 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-06 08:54 pm (UTC)Welcome back, Morley!
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Date: 2006-05-06 09:04 pm (UTC)We're just starting finals XD
Pestana says hi c.c
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Date: 2006-05-06 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-07 12:04 am (UTC)4one5.3zero5.5two1seven
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Date: 2006-05-07 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-07 01:28 am (UTC)welcome back!
Date: 2006-05-08 04:33 pm (UTC)Tuesday!!
Date: 2006-05-08 04:49 pm (UTC)650-346-2086
or email me.
Ack!!!
p.s. Seeing you _does_ take higher priority, but I'd love to be able to do both!
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Date: 2006-05-08 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-08 09:27 pm (UTC)Well, call anyway :) eight0five-seventyfour8-twenty-ninetyseven