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Last night, I went out to dinner with AB, one of the graduate students from the CRESST group at Oxford. At the end of the meal, we received fortune cookies. My fortune read: "You are about to depart for a land of sunshine."
This was very good news for me, as I leave in six hours for the States, and shall be spending the weekend in the woods at P**T***! The gathering is always fun... but eleven years of experience have taught me that it is usually more enjoyable when one can hike in the woods, rather than when one can paddle a canoe in the firepit[*]! It looks like those fortune tellers may be right on the mark, too! The weather report for the site calls for sun and clear skies all weekend; highs in the 70s and lows in the 40s. I don't think that I could ask for better P**T*** weather! Very much looking forward to seeing many of you there tomorrow, my dear friends!!!
Goodness -- this will be my twelfth year in a row at P**T***. My, how the time flies!
I will be back in Oxford late on Monday the 20th. Until then, however, I will be largely out of electronic contact. Whilst at P**T***, I will effectively be in a different world and, thus, virtually impossible to reach. After the gathering ends, I will be travelling and largely away from a computer. For anyone who might need or want to know, here is my tentative schedule:
Fri Oct 10 - Mon Oct 13: At P**T***.
Mon Oct 13 - Wed Oct 15: In NYC, visiting the bio-family.
Wed Oct 15 (evening): Spending time in Jersey with the ever-adorable![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
squeektoy42.
Thu Oct 16: Have a date with the lovelyfawx_fae! Plan to go into Manhattan and paint the town red. Because red is such a pretty colour!
Fri Oct 17: Fly to Michigan in the morning and get picked up by the delightful & delicioustawneypup! Taco and games party in the evening!
Sat Oct 18 - Sun Oct 19: More time with my deartawneypup! Yay!!! And maybe get to see fawx_fae again on Saturday evening, too, if a certain party is still going forward.
Mon Oct 20: Fly back to the land of Eng and return to the place where the oxen were once forded.
Okay, six hours to go. Time to pack and do all those other last minute things that need doing at the last minute[**]...
[*] This did happen one year when the rain was particularly heavy!
[**] Apropos to absolutely nothing, I want to note that I have recently seen two plays. On September 24th,cheshcat went to see The Woman In Black. And this past Saturday, October 4th, we saw a production of one of my absolute favourite comedies, Noises Off at the Oxford Playhouse. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the rest of this entry. However, I do like to keep track of the theatre I see and have been rubbish about updating this journal for the past couple of weeks. So I figured if I did not mention these plays now, before I fly away, it was never going to happen. Hence this somewhat incongruous footnote...
This was very good news for me, as I leave in six hours for the States, and shall be spending the weekend in the woods at P**T***! The gathering is always fun... but eleven years of experience have taught me that it is usually more enjoyable when one can hike in the woods, rather than when one can paddle a canoe in the firepit[*]! It looks like those fortune tellers may be right on the mark, too! The weather report for the site calls for sun and clear skies all weekend; highs in the 70s and lows in the 40s. I don't think that I could ask for better P**T*** weather! Very much looking forward to seeing many of you there tomorrow, my dear friends!!!
Goodness -- this will be my twelfth year in a row at P**T***. My, how the time flies!
I will be back in Oxford late on Monday the 20th. Until then, however, I will be largely out of electronic contact. Whilst at P**T***, I will effectively be in a different world and, thus, virtually impossible to reach. After the gathering ends, I will be travelling and largely away from a computer. For anyone who might need or want to know, here is my tentative schedule:
Fri Oct 10 - Mon Oct 13: At P**T***.
Mon Oct 13 - Wed Oct 15: In NYC, visiting the bio-family.
Wed Oct 15 (evening): Spending time in Jersey with the ever-adorable
squeektoy42.Thu Oct 16: Have a date with the lovely
fawx_fae! Plan to go into Manhattan and paint the town red. Because red is such a pretty colour!Fri Oct 17: Fly to Michigan in the morning and get picked up by the delightful & delicious
tawneypup! Taco and games party in the evening! Sat Oct 18 - Sun Oct 19: More time with my dear
tawneypup! Yay!!! And maybe get to see fawx_fae again on Saturday evening, too, if a certain party is still going forward.Mon Oct 20: Fly back to the land of Eng and return to the place where the oxen were once forded.
Okay, six hours to go. Time to pack and do all those other last minute things that need doing at the last minute[**]...
[*] This did happen one year when the rain was particularly heavy!
[**] Apropos to absolutely nothing, I want to note that I have recently seen two plays. On September 24th,
cheshcat went to see The Woman In Black. And this past Saturday, October 4th, we saw a production of one of my absolute favourite comedies, Noises Off at the Oxford Playhouse. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the rest of this entry. However, I do like to keep track of the theatre I see and have been rubbish about updating this journal for the past couple of weeks. So I figured if I did not mention these plays now, before I fly away, it was never going to happen. Hence this somewhat incongruous footnote...