Asheesh Laroia
Hi.
Sorry.
I don't mean to "threaten" to move.
I'm actually considering it. Brunch at November was so nice...
Hope you're around sometime.
Can talk more.
I know you don't like high-intensity things dropped into air with distressingly little room for discussion.
Also my parents seem to seriously need help with their restaurant.
I'm here in Rochester now.
I'm waffley on the location thing, but I am thinking seriously about moving back to MA.
Oh! I got your emails re: Air BnB! Thank you!
12:34Karen Rustad	waves
12:34Asheesh Laroia	waves back
12:35
Asheesh Laroia
(and frowns sympathetically in advance of seeing you feel bad about the above)
12:35
Karen Rustad
Hah.
12:35
Asheesh Laroia
*hug*?
12:35
Karen Rustad
I guess the first question is why.
12:36
Asheesh Laroia
I want to take some time to talk it through in detail rather than go through thoughts in fits and spurts interrupted online.
12:36
Karen Rustad
Because I remember when you visited out here before you moved and you were all "OMG SF is so great why did I ever leave blaghalublabhagula"
;)
12:36Asheesh Laroia	blushes.
12:36
Asheesh Laroia
Well, yes, there's that. (-:
The houses and the hills are so beautiful.
12:37Asheesh Laroia	quietly, half-instinctively eyes the blue non-away michelle_l_t person in the sidebar of people available to IM
12:37
Asheesh Laroia
And the great, cheap produce. Sold on streets!
Love.
12:37
Karen Rustad
:)
12:37
Asheesh Laroia
And seeing the neighborhoods I've lived in in the past.
So the reasons to not live in SF are mostly that I have all these roots on the east coast.
In the next 2-3 months, if I were in Boston, I'd see more close friends more frequently.  In the 5 year horizon, that means my friends will have kids and I'll get to hang out with them.
I could ignore how close the cities feel for me, but I guess it's time I pay more attention to my own feelings.
I could pretend Fresno feels as close to SF as NYC does to Boston, but that's not actually a thing I feel.
Even though I'll miss Red dearly.
Even though I have probably not seen her once in 2012 anyway.
It's not that I dislike SF/SFBay, is one of the difficulties with this plan.
12:41
Karen Rustad
You have friends here too.
12:41
Asheesh Laroia
I do, it's true. It's a tough decision either way. So it'd be nice to be able to talk about it at more length.
I had oodles of fun at the recent enormous Fake Grendels that you and Blake came to (er, the that Blake actually had no fun at).
12:42
Karen Rustad
Hah. :)
Is now a bad time for further length? Would you prefer phoning?
12:43
Asheesh Laroia
I would prefer later because I want to get some more work done, and have a conversation planned with my mom about a restaurant thing.
I was thinking more like tonight.
12:44Karen Rustad	nods
12:44
Karen Rustad
That's a little tricky because of the time difference, but probably doable.
Also, your place is *so* clean now.
12:44
Asheesh Laroia
: D
12:44
Karen Rustad
I hope it stays that way. :P
12:44
Asheesh Laroia
(literal)
12:45
Karen Rustad
You should do the checks on the airbnb profile that it wants before it'll let the ad go live.
And maybe look over what I wrote.
12:45
Asheesh Laroia
bd
12:45
Karen Rustad
And I'll put up pictures.
12:45Asheesh Laroia	chuckles.
12:45
Asheesh Laroia
That's so nice of you, yay!
Thank you!!
12:45
Karen Rustad
:)
12:46
Asheesh Laroia
The moving thing is tough to talk about because it could feel like a referendum on you personally.
Which is not the idea.
12:47
Karen Rustad
Yeah.
12:47
Asheesh Laroia
*hug*
So please know that either way, I like you and I like spending time with you and I'm grateful for all the nice things you do for me (and with me).
Like taking buses around San Francisco to buy scanners.
That's up there on the list of things I've most enjoyed doing in SF.
12:48
Karen Rustad
Aww.