Huit

The paperwork is being consolidated and possessions packed away. The Peace Corps folks suggest taking pictures to make our living space more homy and to give away. It's rather difficult deciding what pictures to take. I have to admit I laughed several times as I flipped through photograph after photograph. Laughter is a great cure for homesickness right? I think the PC people are onto something.

It's been a good day. My favorite part has been helping Emily come up with subjects for seven "shitty first drafts" (that's what her text book calls them) for her fiction writing class. My first suggestion was a either a city ant's experience in a garden or a country ant's experience in the city...I guess I can relate a bit. She chose the latter of the two. Then I suggested Toby as a character, which unknowingly happenned to be the name of the Comcast guy fixing our internet connection. He was rather confused (or really freaked out) when I made that suggestion. He didn't know our dog's name was Toby.