Home

I've now been home from my Nordic European mini-tour for a few days, and almost everything about the transition has been difficult. I'm only really starting to feel the jet-lag now; before it was just exhaustion from being awake and travelling for the better part of almost 48 hours. I'm glad to be back in a familiar environment, glad to have some space to myself, and some privacy, glad to have my own bed again. I don't feel like the trip should have lasted any longer than it did, but still, being back, getting back into a "normal" routine, and getting ready to go in to the university to work tomorrow just feels strange, a little surreal. I've had a lot to take care of in the little time since I've been back--dealing with mail that's arrived for me while gone, completing forms and sending them off, hoping that everything is getting taken care of on time and in the right way. Mostly all the bustle has been regarding school plans for September, and while each item of business is relatively simple and straightforward, the volume and importance is more than slightly overwhelming...

I know it will still take probably until the end of this next week for me to feel more on track and better rested and healthy again, but in the meantime, waiting for the feeling of normality to return is itself tiring, not to mention annoying. I'm sure I'm annoying most of the people around me too, and I don't like that. Time will heal, and until it does, we just all need to deal...