There's no place like...

I guess I'm home now. It's strange and weird and I don't know how I feel about any of it.
Since I've been gone, my room in my parent's house has been emptied, painted beige, and the furniture has been rearranged, it's a little like one of those dreams where you're talking to your french professor in their office, only in dream world your professor looks just like Heidi Klum...in a tutu...and their office is a giant plastic orb full of grass on top of London's tower bridge. And you know that it's business as usual and you know exactly where you are and exactly who you're talking to but something feels a little out of joint, but you can't put your finger on it until you wake up and are trying to explain the dream to your friend over breakfast and they're like, "What's so weird about you talking to the professor in his office, was it something he said?" and you tell them "Well, no, but he was Heidi Klum...and wearing a tutu!" And they laugh, and you laugh, but somewhere inside you wonder how dream-you didn't catch on that everything was different...
It's kind of like that.
But it's nice to see my family, and it's nice to see all these home-friends, and it's REALLY nice to be back in the land of proper bagels. People *think* they have a "good bagel place" near them, but they're wrong. Some are decent substitutes and, in a moment of bagel-deprived weakness, they'll do, but nothing compares to a New York bagel. I won't waste my breath fighting you on pizza, or hot dogs, or clam chowder, but our bagels will always win. Hands down. No contest.
Now, just because I'm home doesn't mean that this is goodbye. Millions of people lead perfectly interesting lives in the United States, why shouldn't I be one of them? And why shouldn't I continue to write about it?

What to expect:
-Fewer pub crawls
-Fewer references to people solely by nationality
-Fewer places I can't spell
-Fewer complaints about my WiFi enabled device
-More pictures
-More milkshakes
-More driving
-More AMERICA...YEAH!

The truth is...I don't know what to expect from this moving forward. But it will move forward. And that's what matters...I think...