oxford

for the third year in a row i'm not in the US for the 4th of july.

no fireworks, no decorations, no patriotic music, no plans of how to celebrate.

of course i don't need those things, but i still feel that absence.  so happy happy 4th of july everyone!!  enjoy some fireworks for me!


i'm in oxford, settled into my room where the internet works (yay), and i started work yesterday (well - dinner and drinks yesterday...work started today).  it was so good to see friends from past summers (it feels, genuinely, like days have passed since i saw them, not months), and i'm enjoying getting to know the new people, too.  hooray!  oh, and i did laundry!  which was good, since i was on my second to last pair of underwear and my last pair of socks...  i guess all this is to say that i'm enjoying all the little comforts of being someplace (semi-)permanently.