I'm BAAAAAAACK

HEY EVERYONE

I'm back after a long, long hiatus. Said hiatus was due to me being in London and keeping up a separate blog while there (semesterinlondontown.tumblr.com), and being unable to keep up with two blogs at once.

But I'm back now, and I've been home for about a week. My time at home has mainly consisted of a trip into New York where I got too jet lagged to stay at a party I went there for, half-heartedly cleaning my closet, and looking for paid publishing internships for the summer (that's an oxymoron, I'm learning)

I do miss London a lot, and it's seeped into me more than I had thought it would. I call New York subway stations "tube stops" and say I need to "top up" my Metrocard. But beyond public transportation, I can't get through a day without having some kind of second lunch ("tea") at 4pm and I call things "brilliant" a lot. People tell me I'll go back, and I believe them. But when I go back I want to do it right. I want to get a work visa and a job and a flat and really LIVE there. I'd be lying if I said I haven't thought about how great it would be if my kid had a British accent someday. There is NOTHING more adorable than a toddler who says "Mummy."

I go back to Hampshire in ten days though, and I'm really excited. I heard it through the grapevine that people actually miss me when I'm not there. I'm not used to being missed. I do most of the missing usually, it seems. More and more I realize that Hampshire is the place I was meant to end up at. We had a weird start, but now it's home. It was home when I was in London (though I think I could make London my home someday) and it's definitely home when I'm at either of my parents' houses. I can't wait to go back.