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    ...I can go home. This is not a metaphor. I am stuck in Anchorage, AK, waiting for the volcanic ash to clear enough so planes can take off again. My new gentleman friend drove me here from Denali, but he had to go back to work tonight, so now it is just me in my little private room at the hostel near the Wal-Mart calling Alaska Airlines every hour until they tell me-- please!-- that my plane is taking off.

    And then? 22 hours SSE and I will be landing in my adoptive home state, green and broad as God's own golf course. My cat is there, likely flattened against the kitchen tiles in the heat of the summer. I've missed everything about proper adulthood, but I've missed him most of all. Accordingly, I expect to weep with joy for 5-7 days upon my return; my participation here may still be sporadic while I settle in to my "normal" life.

    Gosh, it's been 8 months since I had a normal adult life! I've been to a grocery store maybe 5 times since January, cooked dinner maybe twice. I minced garlic this morning to cook with my swiss chard and my hands felt clumsy around a knife. I've been cutting my own hair with school scissors and razor blades, coloring it in dormitory bathrooms... at this point, I LOOK as though I've been roughing it for 3/4 of a year. Let me tell you, wilderness trips are cool, and housing-included jobs in remote-ass places can probably be fun, but they are really... challenging when done back-to-back.

    But you know, being stuck here isn't actually so bad. My new computer is a wireless magnet so I can entertain myself from pretty much anywhere. And honestly, I am actually so grateful to be going back to FL that I will wait a week if I have to. It is a blessing to be finally out of Denali National Park, away from the 35 degree rainy nights and the dreary days, the cafeteria food and the cruise ship guests making incessantly unfunny jokes, the mud and the gravel and the absence of grass, the mountains knitted so close overhead that I swore they'd collapse on themselves. I'm still slightly embarrassed to be such a tundra-hater, but I love the heat so much and I NEVER complain about humidity, so I think I'm allowed to dislike one type of climatic zone.

    Enclosed for your (and also my; perhaps mostly my) amusement are several pictures of me, taken as I appear at this moment, with my crazy MexiAlaskan outback hair and my appropriate lack of makeup. Can we howl "WOLF GIRL?"
    Drought was over. Where was I? Drinks were on the house.
    For mixers, my love, you'd poured--what?--even the rain.

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    Heehee, I meant to attach this picture too. This one is even more thoroughly lupine.
    Drought was over. Where was I? Drinks were on the house.
    For mixers, my love, you'd poured--what?--even the rain.

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    ^^^^

    lols at your face~~ you're like "GET ME OUT OF HERE NOW!" hehehe
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    WIFEY! I still think your gorgeous, even with the insane bushwoman pics

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    welcome back to fl!

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    ^ well, EVENTUALLY welcome back to FL

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    Thanks for the welcomes... I hope to be back home in 30ish hours, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. My flight is still "unconfirmed" though... but it's been fun, I've been eating gummy worms and catching up on SW alllllll day. Soonish I might take a shower (I could use one... I've gone all backcountry in my showering habits, ewww) and walk to Barnes & Noble so I have something to read when my flight finally does happen... and if it doesn't, then I guess I get to hang out in ANC for a little longer and do more nothing on the internet.
    Drought was over. Where was I? Drinks were on the house.
    For mixers, my love, you'd poured--what?--even the rain.

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    hey welcome back. I know you promised to not waste a whole day on the internet, but maybe one day wouldn't be so bad (yanno, to catch up).

    I've missed your hilarious posts.
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    You're in Anchorage. Say no to B&N and yes to Title Wave. (It's just down the street).



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    Woohoo my plane is confirmed!

    Sorry to have missed Title Wave, Lena... I'm sorry to have missed you too, but I was indentured into servitude with a big stupid corporation and thus stuck where I was... never again! I'll admit, though, I'm already thinking about returning next summer and going to Kenai because I loved the appearance of saltwater, flowers, and snowy mountains all together. I think I could have loved it here if I had been someplace a bit more to my taste. Next year next year, and in a meantime, home! Eeeee!
    Drought was over. Where was I? Drinks were on the house.
    For mixers, my love, you'd poured--what?--even the rain.

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    Congratulations, and welcome back to civilization! I would love to catch up with you again at some point.

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    Welcome home, and congrats on your many adventures!!!! I admire you so much... I can't wait to hear more details!

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    Many adventures? Well, I served steaks to ungrateful and overbooked cruise ship guests, who seldom tipped at a rate greater than 16%. I was required to work as close to EXACTLY 40 hrs/week as possible, so I didn't much go anywhere. I saw moose sometimes, but none of them had antlers. I met a new boy, and he is cute and handsome and cute, but at the end of the day I am certain we're not right for each other. I drank a lot and put on... um... a few extra pounds.

    But it's not all bad. I exercised my social muscles and behaved for all the world like an agreeable, gregarious little creaturelet (as opposed to being all solitary and spooky-like, as I usually am). I played the fuck out of some board games. I will, for the rest of my life, view fruits and vegetables as something glorious and sacred. I will stay away from booze once I get home because it just gives me headaches and cellulite. And... I'm starting grad school next week, having a lot more inspiration than I had in January to move forward with my life.

    I'm considering moving to AZ next, with some kids I met up in Denali, but I might have a better time being a single catmom and just doing school and work for a little while. Maybe get my own place and appreciate the creature comforts of the frontcountry, try to focus on conjuring up a career from my assorted ambitions and tangle of diplomas.

    Oooh, my flight's boarding. I hope I get to sleep on this one. I'm flying all the way from Seattle to Charlotte and maybe I'll have a window seat, not a stupid unsleepable middle seat like I had on my way here.

    Be back on the east coast soon...
    Drought was over. Where was I? Drinks were on the house.
    For mixers, my love, you'd poured--what?--even the rain.

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    I think it sounds like an amazing bunch of excursions that fit perfectly into a pre-grad school year off. Everything includes some level of tedium if you do it for longer than a week... so kudos to you for finishing your stints abroad & at sea, and more so on the self-discovery that accompanied your adventures. Hey, still sounds fun to me!

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    Okay okay. This is the last self-strokey post I will make in my own self-strokey thread. I have 4 things to say:

    1. EAST COAST, HOLLA

    2. If I move to AZ I will be going to Phoenix/Scottsdale, but I will certainly come see you, UV

    3. The sun is setting so quickly into the flat skyline and the haze of smog here in Charlotte, NC, and I am so freakin' happy to see it that I am panting a little bit.

    4. I have been awake since 9:30 AM Alaska time yesterday, which is like... 30something hours? And the people in the billboards here in the terminal, those people appear to be moving.
    Drought was over. Where was I? Drinks were on the house.
    For mixers, my love, you'd poured--what?--even the rain.

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