Travel.

You know you're in the middle of travel season when:

*You refer to your cozy, budget friendly hotel as "home."

*That guy at your favorite restaurant in the town you've only been in for 5 days starts recognizing your face and remembers your name.

*The first thing you do upon entering your own bedroom on those very few days in which you actually get to sleep in it is take your comforter, fold it up and place it in the corner. You're simply acting as you (or I) do upon entering a hotel room--remove that silky, weird bedspread and place it elsewhere.

*When you're talking to another Simpson admissions counselor on the phone, and you say "I'm sitting on the couch in my hotel room" and she says "What!?! You have a couch?! Ugh!!" Well, it's at that point that you realize there might be a little furniture deprivation happening.

*You can't really remember what your co-workers look like.

*Your bank statement shows that you've purchased a tank of gas at least every two or three days.

*Since you see your roommates an average of 12 hours a week, they forget that you actually live in the same apartment as them. You do stop home occasionally to pay the bills though.

*Even when you are home, you don't bother unpacking and continue to live out of your suitcase--you'll only be home for a day and a half, what's the point?

*You're visiting your sister for a day, and your dad happens to be there, too--when he looks in your car he about passes out on the lawn over how you've just gone and "trashed" it. *I just don't think he quite understands what it is that I do. Sheesh. If he knew that my car was essentially my home for the last month or so, he might realize that it happens to be my bedroom, office, living room, and that little place on the floor of the passenger seat just so happens to be my temporary garbage can--what of it?!

*When you actually do go out for dinner with another person (which is seldom), you automatically pull your book out of your purse and start reading it anyway.

*You can't really recall the last time you did laundry...

*You haven't seen Andy in weeks.

*You have 20x more interaction with people via Facebook or texting than face to face.

*You have, however, seen a ton of awesome kids in only a few short weeks!