Leaving Europe

So I've definitely fallen off the update wagon recently, which is kind of a pity since the tales are always fresher and more interesting when they're recent--and it's lots less work for me to remember exactly what happened!

In fact, the past few days have been rather a blur, between my birthday in Florence, a whirlwind Venice visit and then overnight train to Linz, the Ars Electronica Festival itself, and then getting myself back here to Frankfurt. I'll post

more details later, but for now I'm at the gate for my flight home, again via Reykjavik (though with a far shorter layover), and we'll be boarding momentarily.

It's going to be a long day; my flight out of here is at 2:00 p.m., and although I'm scheduled to arrive in Mpls at 5:55 p.m. tonight, I'll be spending much more than four hours in the air! School--and with it my TA gig--starts tomorrow, so it should be an interesting week.