originally posted on Metroblogging Chicago

I wish there was a Philadelphia Metroblog I could have been guest-posting on this week, so I could have told you about the train and driving to Maryland for dinner and snow-boarding next to city hall and Kaki King and hunting for a Nintendo DS and finding one and then not buying it and Continental and bad movies on hotel cable and cookies and having my sleep schedule get so out of wack that I'm still up at 5 AM typing this. But there isn't such a thing, so all I can tell you about is missing my girlfriend and my city and looking forward to getting back tonight.