but it'll change shortly

"Ford was very kind--he gave the barman another five-pound note and told him to keep the change. The barman looked at it and then looked at Ford. He suddenly shivered: he experienced a momentary sensation that he didn't understand because no one on Earth has ever experienced it before. In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. This signal simply communicates an exact and almost pathetic sense of how far that being is from the place of his birth. On Earth it is never possible to be farther than sixteen thousand miles from your birthplace, which really isn't very far, so such signals are too minute to be noticed. Ford Prefect was at this moment under great stress, and he was born six hundred light-years away in the near vicinity of Betelgeuse." -- Douglas Adams, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Right now, in my case, this would be about three miles. And I've never lived anywhere more than 25 miles away. (22.8 miles, actually, according to google maps.) So though I'm not under great stress, said signal would be really really way too minute to be noticed. And yet I can't quite seem to manage to keep my parents as up to date on my life as I do my friends-list. :p I'm working on it, I swear...

ETA, unrelated: it's like it's CALLING MY NAME