... they say, although they also say that home is where they have to take you in when you go there.
This weekend, I was startled to (once again) rediscover both how connected and how weirdly spread out my social networks are. It happened in a combined birthday / graduation party (congratulations, Dr. Nikita,, 14th Wearer of the Robes!) late at night in Berkeley while I was down here for the online deliberation conference.
I found out that a mailing list that I'm a member of--one that gets a number of my mass emails--has something more like a hundred members than the much more comfortable 30 or so that I'd thought. It's very strange going to a party where more people recognize me than vice versa.
Anyway, it was great to see them all, and to have a little bit to catch up. And to remember that the Bay Area isn't my home, but is definitely some sort of place that I belong.
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