home? home on the range?
well, im in my house in philadelphia, getting ready to see BRAD!!!! YAY!!! but, truth be told, it has yet to hit me, in all emotional severity, that i am no longer in oxford or the uk. in all other respects its obvious, and i am suprised how easily i adjusted, for example, buying things in dollars not pounds or driving on the flip side of the road, it all seems natural, as if i never left. but i know i did and as i was unpacking i was reminded gently of the times i had had, but only gently as if it were all a magical dream that i have awoken from but can still see. but it was real, gloriously so. more to come about this all, and the promised re-write of my last day in the uk, when time permits. but now, i have to get ready for the club etc. i get to go in the big kids door...scary, right?
"One summer night, we took my parents' grill & we put in some sticks & paper & soaked the whole thing in lighter fluid & then my friend turned on his shortwave radio & we listened to some scientist in Houston who was saying where Apollo was at that moment & at the exact time it went over us, we lit the stuff in the grill so the astronauts would look out & see this light & they'd say 'What the hell is that?' & we danced around the pillar of flame & sparks laughing wildly because while the astronauts were out there unlocking the mysteries of the universe, we were back home in Chicago making more of them. "
"One summer night, we took my parents' grill & we put in some sticks & paper & soaked the whole thing in lighter fluid & then my friend turned on his shortwave radio & we listened to some scientist in Houston who was saying where Apollo was at that moment & at the exact time it went over us, we lit the stuff in the grill so the astronauts would look out & see this light & they'd say 'What the hell is that?' & we danced around the pillar of flame & sparks laughing wildly because while the astronauts were out there unlocking the mysteries of the universe, we were back home in Chicago making more of them. "