As I walked up the stairs with Dan Y. (who's sitting at the computer next to me as I type) after our last jazz vocal rehearsal before the bus ride, I said something about how wide the scope of human emotions is, how many different ways and states of being we experience, and how strange it is to feel happy and see someone who's having an awful day with the knowledge that a week ago you were each in the opposite place.

"It's like being sick and knowing that other people feel well, but not being able to remember how it feels," I said.
"Or like when you have to pee really badly."

I think this trip will be okay.