It's just that....

It's not that I don't like Thailand, it's just that the series of accidents, injuries, illness, and now the death of my grandmother at an impossibly expensive travel time would've been hard enough at home with a full support system. To throw them all together while I'm halfway around the world and learning to live and work in an entirely foreign culture gets... call it overwhelming. And now my dreamed-of escape stateside won't happen because airline tickets, prohibitively expensive ordinarily, even with a death discount, are up 2-300%.

So back to square 1: see y'all in April 2012.