  525,600 Minutes... So where was I... where was I ? Oh, right...I moved to New Orleans. Exactly a year ago today. People here ask me, "what brought you to New Orleans? " and I generally reply "a Dodge Intrepid.
" Mostly 'cause I'm a smart ass, but, honestly, how does one say "'cause I was at the end of my rope, drowning in debt, depressed, and I had to go somewhere and urlLink Jonno and urlLink Richard seemed to have a nice attic? " without depressing everybody sitting at one's bar? Besides, one thing I've learned this year: There are no simple answers. I've also learned a couple of other things. Like, for example, my patterns don't understand state boundaries and follow me everywhere. And that I'm a Yankee (actually, I'm worse than a Yankee -- I'm a New Yorker). I've turned 40 and learned how freeing that is. I've sadly learned that French fries, French bread, and mayonnaise can be considered a urlLink sandwich .
Honestly? I'm glad I came. I've met some bizarre people, had some interesting experiences, enjoyed the dubious glamour of being a Bourbon Street bartender, been able to take my dog to work, dated a hot 28-year-old boy, walked home through the French Quarter in the fog lit only by gaslamps, bought a urlLink 1973 Dodge Dart , and appeared in a production of Dirty Blonde with a urlLink New Orleans Legend . Do I understand my life any better? Probably not. Has my debt situation improved? Not so much. But I stopped the hemorrhaging on both fronts and I might even have the beginnings of a grip. Not so bad for a year in the Deep South. Now it's time to work on getting back home. Some of that involves finding a new job. My urlLink current job has effectively ended with hurricane season, and Daddy needs cash.
But part is sorting out my experiences, and blogging has always been bery, bery good to me. So, Blogdom, I want back in. For various reasons, I abandoned this soapbox/forum/therapy and I wanna correct that. I want another bite of that urlLink Cheese Sandwich . I wanna rekindle that ol' urlLink Spark . I want that touch of urlLink Minx . I wanna understand how extraordinary the urlLink Unextraordinary can be. I wanna feel urlLink Young again. I wanna get high on urlLink Ethel . Can Charlie come out and play? 
