hello, reporting from vermont week 3! i'm learning how to drive buses, eating fresh bread, and thinking about being 47.

rose buds for then:

-the start of smile wrinkles
-graying, but starting at the temple
-staying as fit as those older women in those calcium/swimming commercials for arthritis or something
-my dream house (the kitchen being central, the porch having some kind of circular but so cool fire pit)
-two dog plz!

ketchup

to catch up, i've been in vt working at a farm camp. last night i stayed up a bit because it was a rare evening of clear sky. so alex and i just watched the milky way for a while. what i thought i knew of the north star is really wrong. i thought it was the brightest star in the sky, but really what i was looking at is a planet. the north star is something modest. i probably won't be able to find it again without the help of someone else.




so i hope you can imagine that's it's really beautiful here. very lush, and very green. the weather has been poor with a lot of gray days, some rain and a good dose of humidity. but its been sunning up here since yesterday though, and i hope it stays this way. and like i expected, the kids are great and i'm having a really good time. there isn't that much to do in the area, and all the good places are closed on my days off but that keeps me from spending too much money in town and my head in the books. i'm trying to finish motorman, and the joke.



things that have really got me up have been sailing, snacking, and beer. oh and the people of course.