My plan was to spend four or five weeks sitting at home, doing nothing much.<\/p>\n
Then Mary Anne's work schedule changed.<\/p>\n
After this coming week, she's going to be much busier during the days for a couple of months. So if I want to visit her during my time off work, this coming week may be the best time for it.<\/p>\n
I've undergone a great deal of waffling about this over the past few days; I've made several decisions and then changed them. There are other times I could visit, and I've only been back from my last pair of weeklong trips for a little over a week; I've been really feeling the need to spend some time quietly alone at home.<\/p>\n
But in the end, for a variety of reasons including surprisingly cheap plane fare, I decided to fly out to Chicago tomorrow and stay for a week.<\/p>\n
So I'll be getting on a plane again about ten hours from now. (Unless they've oversold the flight, in which case I might volunteer to get bumped to a later flight, to get a free ticket.)<\/p>\n
I think it'll be fine. And I've more often regretted not taking an opportunity to see Mary Anne than regretted not taking an opportunity to sit quietly at home.<\/p>\n
But it's possible that sometime in the middle of the week I'll suddenly need to come home and nest. We'll see.<\/p>\n