lessons from a thanksgiving/family wedding weekend extravaganza

• there is nothing like spending time with people you are related to by blood to make you believe in the awesome power of genetics.
• there is nothing like spending time where you grew up to make you feel like a teenager, and then later appreciate growing up.
• there is nothing like going for an misequipped run in the great lakes region to make you appreciate moving to the south.
• there is nothing like a relatively traditional wedding to make you realize how much the world thinks that men and women should be together making babies and that is the purpose of life.
• there is nothing like throwing up that make you appreciate not throwing up.
• there is nothing like being away from your doggies and kitties to make you miss your doggies and kitties.
• there is nothing like finding yourself dancing to this song to make you feel like someone is going to take your feminist credentials away from you.
• there is nothing like having your whole own separate life that lets you appreciate that rare time you spend with your family where you can enjoy their idiosyncrasies. (hi dad, i know you're reading this.)
• there is nothing like being away from work without a thought of it in your head for four whole days, and then having to return to it, to make you believe in the awesome power of entropy.