So as no one reads this anymore I've decided that I should try to update all the time!! Oh the irony. In any case - today is my last day in maine. I am leaving tommorrow for home and then for vermont. Lots of stuff has been going on. Lila and I went to ikea - it was awesome. So awesome in fact that I'm going back on wednesday. Lots of cheap items. Last trip we purchased two chairs and a dining table. I'm going back to get more chairs, some misc. kitchen things (forks, knives, spoons) maybe a desk chair (maybe) and basically see what else useful stuff I can find. Lila also now has skis. We went to the ski shop, talked turkey with tony (the manager) got hooked up with a discount and got her some stuff. Now I'm in maine, waiting for the morning to do some final packing and cleaning and its back to "the cliff." This is what young people from ridiculously upscale briarcliff refer to our town as to make it sound more gangsta. Upon arriving in "the cliff" I'm immediately going to the Sleepy Hollow Country club (of which my family are NOT members) for lil' bro adam's end of season soccer banquet. He was MVP so its a big deal. I am going to wear a shirt and tie so I will probably look real good and feel real uncomfortable at the same time.
Today was seminal in that I made a final trip to scarlet begonias. I'm on a first name basis with with some of the waitstaff there from such frequent visits and I'm sad to say goodbye. However, I'm also going to buy a painting from them. A lovely water colour of the bowdoin chapel, it will be a present for dad for christmas from the brothers.
Not a whole lot else is going on. I talked to avery today because I thought he was in maine and that we could go get a drink together but he isn't and won't be until tommorrow which is exactly when I won't be here but perhaps later this week or early next. Also I miss jonelle a bit but haven't called her yet because I don't have a cell phone and she hasn't realized yet that I have a landline.
I'm going to be getting internet in vt and a phone so soon I'll be back in the loop a little bit. We all know I've never been in the loopy. Perhaps loopy but not in the loop.
I leave you with this soothing image of the NGC 346 star cluster.
Quoting the Nasa Website "This view of one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. At the center of the region is a brilliant star cluster called NGC 346. A dramatic structure of arched, ragged filaments with a distinct ridge surrounds the cluster."
(http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_448.html) The image gets credited to: NASA, ESA and A. Nota (STScI/ESA)
I figure I better add that credit stuff otherwise I'm probably breaking the law.
