Five Things About Today

1. My ten page paper ballooned into a twenty page paper and draft #1 is now under the capable teacher-pen of Lena Tashjian. I'm telling you, people should hire this woman for the great, ass-kicking criticism she gives to any written work. My paper will come back all purple, and all the better for it.

2. Today = phone bonanza! Ed called this morning at 7 AM, and we talked for a good hour. Ed reports that the sun finally came out in Alaska (which could mean the weather's not great in Seattle; there's an inverse relationship), and the pinks, a species of salmon ideal for the Japanese School Lunch Program, finally "showed up" (on his birthday, no less), helping the Alsek bottom line. Ed and I also discussed/confirmed my destination for next summer, my graduation summer, which is... *drumroll*... Asheville, NC! Read more about Bread Loaf, Asheville at:

http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/campuses/nc

(Someone teach me how to link that so the link isn't so cuckoo-long?)

3. Today = mail bonanza! Today was a record mail day, with a card from Mom and Dad, two cards from Ed (complete with diagram of rebuilt net; very cool), and a card from Cameron, the awesome Seattle Academy graduate fishing with Ed this summer. Cameron thanked me in his card for "helping me land the two greatest opportunities I have ever had: fishing in Alaska and going to Yale." Yes!

4. It's raining like a sonofabitch. It's raining so much, that a possible late-night study break to the cheap falafel stand might go on "rain delay." You know it's bad when it's too rainy for me to get FOOD.

5. Tomorrow begins the mini-vacation known as Oxford Without Homework. I attend my last class, turn in my last paper, and spend the next three days hitting the favorite haunts of Oxford and reprogramming my brain for actual work next week (wha?).

Have a great day! Love to all!
Melanie