Wow, that's so exciting! Congratulations! And best of luck! It'll be great, I'm sure.

p.s. Can I come visit? ;-)

Hell yeah. :)

Holy cow! That's a big move; very exciting! You must come through Chicago, of course, and have at least lunch with me. Preferably dinner and carousing, but at least lunch.

Wow! Congrats! I'm happy for you!

I'll have to echo everyone else. Wow, wow, wow! Congratulations! I bet it feels wonderful to have the decision made and wonderfully exciting, too.

Congratulations. Let me know when you arrive and I'll take you to somewhere with less well placed taps.

great! freu mi uff dich als arbets-gspoenli ;-)

damn you, Switzerland, you are already so blessed with your little clocks and your economic summits and your trilingualism and so forth. Do you have to steal our favorite writers too?

seriously, though, congratulations David!

zo.

Wow, congratulations, David! But, seriously, you need to add us to your itinerary. Let us show you a blue city in a red state good time.

Congrats David. If you stop in Chicago, let me know.

Cool! Congrats. Let me know if you want to grab a drink while you're in Madison.

-Trent

Holy cow! Congratulations on your soon-to-be ex-patriate status! Feel free to call/email if you veer near Atlanta and want to say hi!

When I met you, you were on Martha's Vineyard for a week-long stop between Japan and Oxford, which made your life seem very adventurous to me. Congrats on starting the next chapter.

You are mad, molesy, mad! Obviously we will have the din when you come to LA. And, I dunno, see a movie. Whateverthefuck they do in this town.

Ha ha! My evil plan has worked!

None of you are safe, you know. You're all moving to the land of good cheese.

(p.s. Calivinism is more Geneva. They're Zwinglians in Basel.)

Wow! Congratulations x 15703481. Except for the part where you're not road-tripping far enough east--what's that all about?

Seriously, man, bravo.

Awesome. Very cool. And it sounds like the best way to begin an adventure like this is to meander through this country. And I'm expecting some good European con reports!

Wow, that's awesome, David! Take infernokrushing to a neutral nation and show them the true meaning of destruction! Or something.

Congrats, David! I hope you're planning on travelling back to the states alot for cons, so we all still get to see you regular-like!

We should do dinner if you come by the Bay Area!

Gwenda, the Manhattan-to-Jacksonville leg of the trip is kind of overspecified, but with a little luck I may be able to make a second road trip out of Jacksonville-to-Chicago. I'm for damn sure going to try.

Dave, Scott, Trent — watch this space. :)

Jon, Atlanta's definitely on the route — dinner or something at the least.

Meghan, why do you think I'm going through LA and not turning left at Pasadena? (In other words, absofuckinlutely.)

Hannah, see what you get for leaving the Midwest? (But I'll see you at Wiscon, right?)

Tim, Heather — for sure!

Everyone else — thanks! It's going to be crazy, but I think it's going to be a blast, too.

David, I've never commented here before. Hell, I've never even been to your page here before. It's just a random happenstance that I'm here now.

Weird. Too many synchronicities. Though I've never been to Oxford, I was a student at UCSC for a while. I lived for four years in that other Manhattan. I studied Japanese for a year and then, ten years later, taught it for a year, in Florida!

We've only met up a couple times, and I probably won't recognize you the next time we meet (but then, I rarely recognize or remember anyone, missing some vital ganaglia, don't ya know), but I'm feeling oddly connected to you on this chilly Friday.

So, safe travels, and all that. Pick a person at random during your road trip and make a point to say hello from me. In this way we do stave off entropy.

Congratulations!! The Pacific Northwest will miss you, but the Swiss are gaining a great human being. Congrats, again!

Congratulations, David. What an awesome, wondrous, exciting adventure. If you've got time in LA, I wanna have dinner too!

Me also in Chicago! :-) Although e-mail me rather than telling me to watch this space, please, because I am a bit behind and likely to forget to come back. I will gladly make Sri Lankan curries for you and all your local friends. ('All' meaning no more than twelve, please :-). I also offer crash space in our guest room. And possibly a ride to the airport if needed. Though our new house is also just off the Blue Line.

Absolutely at Wiscon! (Actually, I'm going to be in Chicago next weekend--though I'm guessing that's too early for your road trip?)

And I will bother you more about creepy Livejournal on my next round of emailing. You're just going to Europe to get away from me, aren't you? ;)

I'm incredibly pleased for you and grumpy for me and Johnzo. You reallze, of course, that once you get there, we're totally crashing on your floor.

I know I'm a little late offering, but let me know if you need any help getting your apartment, etc. taken care of. We don't have a truck or anything like that, but I'm more than happy to help you pack boxes, scrub out forgotten corners. etc.

Congratulations, and may the experience be everything you desire of it. :)