Another plane ride (i'm sorry, earth. i am) and i'm home.
I went to the dentist this afternoon. The first time I went to him was in 1982. I was two. We looked it up on my chart and then reflected on how time flies. My brother says that every time he goes the receptionist reminds him about how he used to sleep on the floor in the lobby in a car seat when he was a baby. Being brown in a small town. No one ever forgets you. or maybe that's cynical. We were also pretty cute, and my mom is endearing.
After the dentist I went to the mall, which was one of the most disorienting experiences ever. i circled for a good 20 minutes in my dad's car, looking for a parking spot. Christmas insanity. I spent so much time at that mall as a teenager, but I've only been back a handful of times since. So much stuff and I had zero desire to purchase any of it, even though i went in with a plan. I eyed the ice cream but decided the amoeba would not appreciate it. I kept looking at faces, expecting to see someone i knew, then i realized I was looking at women in their early 20s when I should have been looking at the moms pushing strollers.
Randomly, I ran into my cousin Petey. He told me he's split from his wife and is living on a hobby farm up one of the rural sideroads. We caught up for a while - his reno jobs, his son's AA hockey career. I tried to explain about Ethiopia but what to say?
After a while, I bought a cranberry juice, a bag of ketchup chips, and i headed back out to the car. Listened to the radio, drove through the snowy cornfields in the blue dusk. Every single thing I've described here is so familiar and also so completely different from the life I live now. Whenever I come home, there is a little part of me that is so tempted to just stay here.
6:58 p.m. - 2010-12-21
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