back home

So I've been gone for two weeks. Actually, more than two weeks - two weeks and a day. Back in Europe, some for work, most for pleasure. At first, it was a bit weird, walking around my neighborhood, seeing friends, going to the old office - but after day one, it's just as if i were living there all over again. Bizarre how adaptable your mind is, isn't it?

It was fab weather almost the whole time I was there. My goal? To run in Hyde Park. In my almost two years there, I never once even attempted to run anywhere, let alone Hyde Park. So this time around, staying at a hotel directly across the street from the park... success! I did a little jog one afternoon, wearing my Stanford butt-shorts and listening to Wicked. I feel so accomplished.

A few park pictures, one of them is from a park in Paris - can you tell which one? And by the way, all of these photos were taken from my cell phone. Amazing how advanced technology is. And apparently, we're invested in a company that makes camera module chips for cellphones. Like super high quality stuff. I want one of those.

So this picture is horrible, but on my way to the bathroom at Heathrow, I came across the multi-faith prayer room. It's great. In Europe, they're so liberal, everywhere. At the airport? Smoking room. Non-smoking room. Internet room. Multi-faith prayer room. Duty free whisky buying room. Bath room. It's awesome.