I have been all incommunicado because i spent the last week vacationing in boston. as much as one can really vacation in a city they called home for eight years. spinster summer 2011 has officially commenced. jared & i flew out to boston together last tuesday, & i flew home alone this past tuesday. jared will be in boston for the next two months, working in the massachusetts historical archives, cobbling together research that will hopefully form the backbone for his dissertation.
boston was weird. i love boston, i miss it, i often wish i still lived there, but when i go back to visit, i kind of like to pretend that i do just live there. which means hanging out with people in casual ways, maybe wandering around a little through various neighborhoods, & not going bananas walking the freedom trail or going to art museums. jared & i were in really different mental spaces, because he was thinking a lot about his archive work & i was just into hanging out & relaxing. so it was kind of hard.
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