This is your life

After two weeks of traveling, reunions, and sleep deprivation, I am now back to packing school lunches, pulling weeds, and hyper-miling on familiar routes. The mundane, the necessary, the ordinary.

When I was preparing for the trip, I was worried about the upheaval of my routine, about losing my daily flow. Now that I am back, I miss the unexpected, the dramatic, the heightened emotional state.

Real life, filled with contradictions and opposites.

Contradictions by Marcin Wichary on Flikr

As a writer, I need both. I hope I will make full use of the emotions and experiences I've had these past weeks.

The clock on my computer says 9:42 a.m., my body says it's close to midnight and time to sleep. Where is that second cup of coffee?

coffee by Kwerfeldein on Flickr