Sorry for another gap in posts, but I was finishing my papers last week and then visited Gabry in Milan over the weekend. But I have been thinking of you, dear readers, whoever you are (although I know most of you are family and friends and I thought of you in specific) and thinking of different things I will post.
Some of you may be wondering if I am feeling very worldly now. The truth is that I feel I don't know enough statistics/info about the USA to lead important conversations. Like I can't remember how many people died in the World Trade Center attack or how many democrats got voted into the Congress or what the new regulations are on steroid use in the MLB... So I think I will work on that before I travel again. To be fair, though, I have been caught under informed other times since I have been in Dublin, but it hadn't happened in a while so I had forgotten about being prepared to be a representative of my country.
Gabry's mother (who is a really interesting woman for a number of reasons one of which is her ability to read people and predict some things that will happen) said something along the lines of me being the most American of all the Americans that she has met, that I seem to really be from America and feel that is my home. I don't know if I would've come across that clearly before this time living in Ireland, but I am starting to think I have known that for a few years. I am definitely a San Francisco-area native and that's where I belong. All the rest of the world I have seen so far (in the US or elsewhere) has it's own thing going on and it's nice to visit, but my first choice is still San Francisco for building a home/life/future.
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