In the heat of the summer sunshine...
Jun. 22nd, 2011 02:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sadie_cocopuffI'm sitting in a lovely little cafe in downtown Montpelier, waiting for the girl I'm going to be tutoring in French to arrive. I am drinking French roast cafe au lait. It is delicious. In a few hours, I will go pick Emma up from work and we will go out to dinner with her mom and her mom's friend, who wants to introduce Emma and her daughter. This weekend we're going to Middlebury, to wander the farmer's market, see friends, probably go to Two Brothers for a drink, then stopping by Burlington on our way back Sunday.
The only gloomy spot in all this wonderfulness is that I just found out the priest at St. Stephen's transferred to a church in Palo Alto, CA, at the end of May. I was looking up service times with the thought that I might go Sunday morning, and was very sad to see that he was no longer listed as the rector. Father Terry was wonderful, and I was looking forward to seeing him again. I think he may have been the first openly gay religious person I ever met.
Other than that, the first part of summer has been lovely. Emma and I basically did nothing in Texas but eat at all the different places I dragged her to. And drank a fair number of margaritas. The road trip up was alternately really fun and kind of hellish. Graceland was pretty neat, Niagara falls was AMAZING. I stood in a waterfall! Driving late into the night, especially in winding, foggy back "highways" in Vermont, was dreadful and I never want to do it again.
Since getting here, I have found the post office, Espresso Bueno, the public library -- clearly, the only important places in town -- and signed a lease and put down a security deposit on an apartment. It's not completely ideal -- for one thing, it has no internet -- but I am pretty grateful to have found someone who would rent to me for just two months, so I'm going with it. I'm currently unemployed, apart from the aforementioned tutoring, but I just met a girl at dinner tonight who said she might have some temp desk work at her business. I'm content to bum around, but if something comes up I'll take it. All in all, I'm very happy about the prospect of this summer!
The only gloomy spot in all this wonderfulness is that I just found out the priest at St. Stephen's transferred to a church in Palo Alto, CA, at the end of May. I was looking up service times with the thought that I might go Sunday morning, and was very sad to see that he was no longer listed as the rector. Father Terry was wonderful, and I was looking forward to seeing him again. I think he may have been the first openly gay religious person I ever met.
Other than that, the first part of summer has been lovely. Emma and I basically did nothing in Texas but eat at all the different places I dragged her to. And drank a fair number of margaritas. The road trip up was alternately really fun and kind of hellish. Graceland was pretty neat, Niagara falls was AMAZING. I stood in a waterfall! Driving late into the night, especially in winding, foggy back "highways" in Vermont, was dreadful and I never want to do it again.
Since getting here, I have found the post office, Espresso Bueno, the public library -- clearly, the only important places in town -- and signed a lease and put down a security deposit on an apartment. It's not completely ideal -- for one thing, it has no internet -- but I am pretty grateful to have found someone who would rent to me for just two months, so I'm going with it. I'm currently unemployed, apart from the aforementioned tutoring, but I just met a girl at dinner tonight who said she might have some temp desk work at her business. I'm content to bum around, but if something comes up I'll take it. All in all, I'm very happy about the prospect of this summer!
