T-2 dys till Shove-Off and i don't fully believe in carbon offsetting

Man it's been a long time since i have written in here.

Not for lack of happenings, cause things have happened, certainly.

Long and short of it:

SHORT:We moved out of our NYC apt, put everything into storage, handed our cats over to their foster mother and we moved into a car to travel around the USA for a solid year, with our friend, Mark Dixon.

LONG:
-Ben and I did the 10-dy Lemonade Master Cleanse and learned that we can actually do without solid food and still accomplish most tasks without total fog...
-We moved out of our apartment in Astoria, NYC, and put most all of our earthly possessions into storage in Edison, NJ, where storing things is cheap bc nobody really wants to live there (Tho it's not ugly it is FAR from EVERYTHING)...
-Ben packed up his remainder and took himself and our 2 cats to Pittsburgh, PA so he could continue pimping Bob Dubaq's one-man show, The Male Intellect: AN Oxymoron, and make us some much-needed cash to prepare for this trip...
-I moved in temporarily with the lovely and talented Carmen Keels in Harlem while workshopping the fairly raw musical Only Children at Lincoln Center's Director's Lab to bring further bacon..
-Our cats went into foster home of our dear friend, Ange Vesco...
-Mark madly prepping for YERT this entire time from his room in the attic of his sister's house in Pittsburgh.... hmmm...
-daytrip vacation to Cape Cod with the Evanses,
-YERT meet in DC to test drive and purchase the car for the trip
-my ultimate move to Pittsburgh with the remainder of MY stuff,
-Citytheatre's Momentum Festival, in which Ben and I got to do a 2-person reading of a newly commissioned musical of the play An Infinite Ache, music/lyrics by Valerie Vigoda and Brendan Milburne. [The music is still with us 3 weeks later (but in a good way - I only wish i were Asian so that i might actually be considered when the show gets fully produced...sigh...the burdens of being a white girl...wait...what burdens? wait...being on the road for a year makes that point mooter than moot...sigh)]...
-Went home to Louisville to spend time with Mama and my best childhood girlfriend, Monique, who is going through a bit of a rough spot...
---packing. packing. having small (and bigger) little crackdowns. ..
-Led my first interview with a really nice environmental writer/blogger named Sean MacInnes...
-We got talked about in the city paper and we were honored by City Council with a day in our name. June 30th is officially YERT day in Pittsburgh.
- were part of a Sierra Club mini-protest at the Exxon station downtown, complete with "Honk if you love Green Energy" signs and free rides in our new (to us) Hybrid.
-YERT launch party happened at the Union Ctr in Pittsburgh!!!
so. some stuff!
p.s i got a rocking sinus infection just before the launch which had me in bed for 4 dys with a headache i could only wish on Dick Cheney and which sent me to the MedXpress for an IV of pain meds and a cool dark room with really truly sweet care. that Dick Cheney would not ever deserve. Thank you ladies. And thank you boys for supporting me in my misery. And thank you Mom for worrying that i was having a stroke.
I appreciate the thoughtfulness.

I now have to simply add that the notion of Carbon Offsetting seems to me ridiculous. Not that we aren't buying into it for our trip. We absolutely are accepting the donation of complete carbon offestting from the group Planktos- in case our offsetting actually DOES offest the carbon we are putting out there by our travels. I just don't feel confident that investing in greener energy research and development really does that. (And I worry that electric companies who are allowed to collect extra money to "go towards greener alternatives" may not actually be investing in anything except their own pockets.) That's my Pop's cynicism in me.

That's all for now. This ship sails in 2 dys and I am just trying to see if i've got all i need to survive. I've got one book of fiction and a bag of yarn. Let's see how long that lasts. Good Luck, boys. ;)