Hi friends,

Thanks for all your kind and enthusiastic notes about my big news. The convenient thing about us hanging out via email like this is that we get to keep kicking it all over the world. I think that's pretty sweet.

Speaking of which, I'm in Lisbon for all of next week! Anybody else going to Web Summit? It's the biggest tech conference in Europe, if not the world. Will try to be good about Snapchatting, particularly while I drink port wine and watch the election at 4AM.

For today, I'd like to address this question that I seem to keep getting in my inbox. It goes a little something like this: 

Hi friends,

I have some pretty big news to share today. And that news is this:

I'm moving to London in January.

--RECORD SCREECH, BACKSTORY, LET'S GO--

Over the past year, I have been quietly assembling a pile of paperwork to apply for something the UK calls the Exceptional Talent (Tech) Visa.

As far as immigration is concerned, it's effectively a golden ticket. I can work however and wherever I please, without restriction.

Hi Friends,

I'm in London. Again. Second time in as many weeks.

Surprising no one: I'm currently posted up at the Shoreditch House bar, eating free Mike n' Ikes and answering emails.

I'm just in town for about 36 hours this time, because I'm giving a ~talk~ at a ~conference~ tomorrow. It's a talk about my day job!

Longtime readers know that I spend my days working as a communications advisor for UX, design, and digital product teams.

To kind of explain: Someone, somewhere, in some room, had to decide to call a Facebook status update a "status update." And call a newsfeed a "newsfeed." I'm that person.

Hi, Friends.

It's National Poetry Day, apparently! My English lit chops instinctively kicked in when I found that out this morning, so I've been spending all day sharing plennnnty of my favorite poems (and, swoon, poetry slam videos) over on Twitter.

Poetry seems particularly suited to what is officially autumn weather here in Berlin. I was in the UK from Saturday until late Tuesday night, which included a very adorable visit to my cousin and her babies in Bristol...

... and now I'm just catching up on work, answering emails, and biding my time until mulled wine season really and truly begins.

Hi friends,

I'm working from home today, and am absolutely delighted to be on my sofa.

I've been in the office three days a week with my biggest client, Zalando, for the last few months--meaning my Mondays and Fridays now feel like special, secret little bookends to my week.

I had an awesome, too-short time hanging in Vienna with Mom & Dad. Headed to ~London~ tomorrow to spend a few more days together before they bounce back to the Americas.