So now that I've gotten rid of my two-week gig in August, I feel a lot better and have started thinking about planning some sort of trip, provided that the current house-search and languid negotiation process actually picks up--the parents have been very hagglingly dragging their feet, but it looks like it might be okay because the market is small enough and few people are operating in cash quite as much. Still, the move to Sunnyside is still a little far off.