Perrin and I are sitting in our parents’ living room questioning our delicate situation.  We are surrounded by mattresses and dressers, which makes this stay seem more permanent than we are comfortable with.  We leave for Italy this week but at the moment we appear to have voluntarily moved back home.  As we question what burst of insanity provoked us to leave our friends, apartments and jobs in New York we thought we’d make a list of those things that we won’t miss:

1. Tourists wearing “I <3 New York t-shirts”.  Our friends wearing I <3 NY shirts” and pretending to be tourists at the Times Square Olive Garden is awesome though.

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