Sounds like when I returned from Nicaragua. It was like total culture shock - all of a sudden the way of life I'd always been used to seemed so foreign to me. Which was very weird, since there was no culture shock when I first arrived in Nica, only when I came back. Going there felt more like I was settling into and learning about a really cool way of life that I never knew existed. But then I got back, and every teeny little aspect of American life seemed so unimportant and superficial. I eventually got over that for the most part, though. (Took me longer to get over it than the amount of time I spent down there in the first place - very odd.) I suppose that's good in that it allowed me to function normally again, but I can't help thinking sometimes that I was a better person when I was still going through all of that.
YOU, envious of ME?? I took a glance at your blog, and I must say the feeling is most definitely returned. You've traveled all over the place, I'm so jealous! I have a picture of a monument in Managua that was put up after the Sandinistan revolution, I'll have to see if I can dig it up. Oh, and random note, Alicia told me your field was dark matter - I started writing a book awhile ago (never got very far - I had the ideas all laid out, they just wouldn't translate into prose) that was about dark matter. It was fiction, but I did a ton of research at the time b/c I wanted it to be as realistic as possible. Kinda funny.
(My apologies, Alicia, for using this as my personal message board, LOL!)
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