leaving on a jet plane, I don't know when i'll be back again

Actually, I've already left and arrived in Baltimore, but really, jet planes aren't much out of the ordinary for me, it's the not coming back part. I keep mentioning to people that I'm never coming back to the Bay area, and they all tell me that I am. Perhaps they're right, but what bugs me is that I don't have any definite plans to come back. Well, ok, I'll almost certainly be back here in May, but that's a million miles away from right now. All I can say, I guess, is send your party announcements a bit in advance and fanlain and I will be on the lookout for free weekends and cheap airfares...

My last day in town was pretty good, except for the very end. I thought everything was going well and we had lined up people to take a look at and hopefully take care of my motorcycles, when I discovered that 1) I had left the lights on my good bike and the battery had run down, and 2) I somehow lost the title to my "bad" bike. This makes getting rid of both of them frustrating. I spent some time trying to push start the bike. Since I no longer have any gear at home, I was playing with fire, or rather, a 60hp engine, but I managed to escape with only a slight cut on my toe, and I think I got it charged enough so that the starter now turns over. (fanlain has not had a chance to test this out yet.) I printed out a duplicate title application for the other one and put down all the appropriate signatures, so hopefully the transaction can go on without me.

I was tired from the stress and from pushing a 450lb weight around (the wheels help, but not as much going uphill), so I collapsed into bed while waiting for the laundry to finish, but wasn't really able to sleep most of the night. Thinking too much about what's up for the next, week, month, year, life... all in all, lots of exciting things, but I was exhausted by the time I made it to the airport (and underwent the ridiculous one-way ticket extra security check), and the dreams I had on the plan were all about my fantasy book, and not about moving, research. Speaking of dreams, I have to be up in a few hours and thinking about research, so it's time to go to bed.