Leave Taking

In a month or so (August 31st to be exact) I have to be out of our house, because we found a renter for September 1 (actually, one of my present housemates is going to take over, and get more housemates - and he already found a bunch.) I'm quite thankful for that, because the housing market is so bad, that for the two months our house was on the market, no one even came to look at it.  Yes, Virginia, the housing market around here is that bad. Our realtor said that basically nothing listed for more than $200K was selling. Sigh. So ... I'll be hitting the highway again, this time back to California, a little earlier than I expected.  I'm excited to be moving back to the Bay Area - interested in finding out more about all of the varied things I might get connected to, or involved with. And there is also sadness - I'm leaving (again) a group of great friends that I'll miss getting to see often. I'm sad to be leaving New England, the part of the country that seems to me to be as much like home as any I've so far found. So I'll be packing, having last lunches and coffees and teas with people for a while, downloading audio books, making playlists, arranging moving logistics, scanning SF Bay Area Craigslist for places to possibly look at when I arrive, and hopefully still manage to work, write and stay sane. Wish me luck. It's an interesting, liminal time.