The Reason Why I was Glad To Come Home

I am totally blown away by everyone's comments, insights, and support to the Top Monkey epiphany. WE ARE ALL OUR OWN TOP MONKEY!!! Trade your best food for pictures of YOUR OWN BUTT and YOUR OWN FACE!! Well, okay, you could also just believe in yourself.

BUT ONWARD!

I have been holding something in and I have been so excited to announce it to the world! Now, I think it is safe to reveal it:

GRAHAM AND I ARE GETTING HITCHED!!!!

I am incredibly HAPPY about it. There's no dramatic engagement story. It was rather organic and natural. About an hour before I was to leave for Omega, Graham and I were engaged in a really DEEP conversation, sharing stories from parts of our lives that were intense and sometimes emotional. Then it came to a point that I was just so overcome by how much I deeply respected and cherished this person and so I said, "You know what? I want to marry you."
And he said, "I want to marry you."
So I asked, "Will you marry me?"
and he said, "Yes, I will." Then we stood in the kitchen, and couldn't believe it. Then I had to run for the bus leaving for Omega, and THAT WAS WEIRD.

We didn't tell anybody for a few days. It burned in me like a hot tack. At lunch one day at Omega, I announced to a table of relative strangers, "I hope you don't mind me announcing this, but I just have to tell somebody: about an hour before I left to come here, I GOT ENGAGED." They were all very enthusiastic.

So you can see also, why it was good to get home. I had something very real and exciting happening at home. I had another dream that was coming true and nobody gave me permission or endowed me with their magical presence to say, KID, THIS IS IT. All I had to do, was walk in the door, drop my bags, and say, HERE I AM. Sometimes that's the best kind of magic. As Lynda Barry says, it's not supernatural. It's natural--and it sure is SUPER.