Two, Two, Tucson in One.

Yep...I'm heading back to Tucson tonight. The BF and I have been apart exactly 19 days, 5 hours, as of this writing. "Only" 19 days. Yikes. 19 days is nothing...am I sure that's correct? Yep. iCal says so, so it must be true. Yikes again. Feels like so much longer, and will continue to feel like it's been much longer until the moment I make that last turn towards leaving the secured area of Tucson's airport and I see him standing there with that small smile that would look tentative if I didn't actually know any better.

But I do, and I can't wait to see it again.

So at that moment, these 19 days will have evaporated, and the continuity will have been reestablished. There's a dreamlike quality to it (or a sci-fi/nightmarish quality to it), as if someone gave you memories you don't remember making yourself, these 19 days of kicking butt at work, of spending time with good friends, of still having the privilege of living in such a mantic and magical and bewitching city—a city in the United States, no less!—of imagining what it will be like in less than eight months to be living with the one I love.

And, coincidentally, I'll actually be there for the opening of a new Apple Store (something I've never done), and on the 20th Anniversary of that little machine that changed my world, the Apple Macintosh^® (Click here or on the picture for a retrospective, if you're so inclined). What fun! I'll see if I can win me a t-shirt and maybe a shiny new iMac.

Coming up next week, just to warn you (and by that I mean you and you), Haikuesdays return!