Going back to the USA for Chinese New Year's

Yes, it's ironic, but Leo and I are going Stateside to celebrate a Chinese holiday with Peter, in Irvine. On this blog, I have not been chronicling the travails of academic coupledom, two jobs, one kid and three cultures (German, Chinese and American), because well, "Don't Ask Me!" I mean this was never meant to be a "personal blog' in that way, but I'm giving in to confession as I trepidatiously (is that a word?) venture back into the land that gave Bush II his "mandate."

I am missing my other half