This is just a super-quick post to say that I'm alive and well and being held hostage in New Jersey. My hair DID get bigger upon arrival but that was really due to the horrible heat and humidity rather than bad taste.
Actually, so far the trip has been good. I have bought out Dress Barn, Macy's and Target. I (we) bought my mother a badly-needed new computer yesterday, and after a quick trip just now to Staples to buy a Windows 7-compatible network adaptor (since the old one didn't work with the new PC), we now have a live internet connection and voila! Here I am at last.
I've gotten to reconnect with a couple of friends so far (meeting another one in about 2 hours for coffee) and will spend a lot of time this weekend with my best friend and her family. Haven't seen my niece yet as she was busy every night this week after school and now she's at the Shore for the holiday weekend with 20 of her closest friends; ah, to be 17-almost-18 again and have the whole world ahead of you, right?
Will update more in a future post... in which I will tell you how I was legally groped in public by security at Charles de Gaulle airport on my way out of Paris.
Good times.
