Exodus

I have now made it to Memphis. I am typing on the laptop which I have managed to hook to the internet by the expedient of making my parents' computer completely inoperable.

Took me a while to get here. I did spend a day with M. It was beautiful and emotional and long and she's thoroughly wonderful, and it was much more difficult to leave Wisconsin than I'd ever thought it would be. I'm not going to write about it, at least not yet, but this is really what's on my mind. Hence the mostly dry listing of events.

Took me an extra day on top of that, although most of that is due to trying to move material out of my apartment New Year's Eve. Miss W called me at midnight - she's alone for the holiday again, sadly. (Although everyone seemed pretty low key this year - working, with a friend, at home with spouse, ...)

I took off very early in the morning on Sunday and met Dr Lizzie after her shift at the hospital. (She's working twelve hour shifts right now - 7pm to 7am. Insane.) We walked, had breakfast, and talked for many hours. Then I drove across Illinois in winter. The most prominent color is grey. The prominent shape is the plane.