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Wow, I don't know if it's just because it's been two years and change since I've had to move time zones, or if the East Asia to West Coast America switch is just especially brutal, but my life since I got here a week ago has felt like one barely coherent haze.

And just like that... I'm out of here. I've got two suitcases and a cat to carry on the plane with me ASAP.

Well! It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks since officially ending my time at RADII. Which is my excuse for pushing this out a day late when damn it, I already even had it completely finished in drafts days before.

As you might recall, I went to Wuhan recently for one of my last work trips. I liked the quick taste of it so much that I decided to get my friend/colleague Lu to talk to me more about it, and to go back and enjoy it again.

With Thanksgiving coming up, it seems as good a time as any to remind everybody that, as fun as it is to celebrate over and over again (one year, I think I went to four different Thanksgiving parties in the span of a week), to be mindful of the amount of waste you generate.

Who’s going to remember that the Number 2 means “high density polyethylene,” which recycling centers accept, while the Number 6 means “polystyrene,” which is mostly a no go? Why put a recycle symbol when something’s basically unrecyclable?

COP26 is probably the climate change conference of our time. And now I have my own little Elaine-branded primer on what's going on with this whole shindig. Read through to figure out what's going on, friends!