I have returned! And within hours of my arrival in the US, I was mercilessly assaulted by the thuggish snot-villain that is pleased to call itself my immune system. It's just pollen, you know...I don't need the interior of my nose to swell up to the size and consistency of a cantaloup stuffed into a film cannister to defend myself from a tree's reproductive excess.
Similarly, Bob the Cat--irked by the scents wafting through open windows--welcomed me home by expressing her need to defend us from All Other Creatures by pissing on the dining room floor.
Home again. Joy.
