Apologies to everyone I was having a conversation with in May and have not spoken with in weeks - I've been kind of absorbed with my own things lately (moving does that to you).
Aw, poor foreigners - whatever shall we do to amuse ourselves in the meantime?
On an unrelated note - welcome back! You were greatly missed!
I think the word you're looking for is "inspiration", though that may be the musician in me talking.
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ION: Mom's up visiting for the weekend, so that's been nice. We went on a nice long walk yesterday (not as long as I would've liked, but she'd been running in the morning and it was getting late by the time we got back, so we probably timed it about right as it was). I imagine she and my sister intend to take me out somewhere nice for food today, but I might be able to con them into going somewhere cheap regardless.