"Aren't you already there?"

"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"

- Richard Bach

In this case, by all rights, I'm a couple hundred miles away, at a halloween party on a cold dark night.  Which might explain the disorientation I feel at also being right here, on my air mattress in the dark looking at a computer screen, hearing the click of keys, the white noise of a fan from the other room in the background, and my heart in my ears.