if i can get the right flight, which looks rather unlikely at present, i shall fly into jfk on my return from singapore instead of into logan, and von can drive down and pick me up in new york and we can drive on to dc, arriving well before evening to have dinner with our friends. we'll stay in dc for a day, and then we can drive on to charlottesville to see the nohrnbergs and picnic on the lawn. there shouldn't be many students about at that time. i hope it all works out we've been talking about this trip for so long that if it doesn't happen i shall be crushed. and i do want to see christine and milgo, who are both living in dc now. on the other hand, considering how behind i'm with the generals and the fact that von hasn't found an apartment yet and needs to relocate soon, maybe it's just as well we didn't and stayed in cambridge to tend ourselves. cville does me good. seeing my favourite teachers and paying pilgrimages. i have so many people there - that i am home there - and yet it is also unavoidable that being there i feel unfortunately furtive, trying to dart away from ghosts from a past life - although von should keep me out of mischief and harm - that it may be a bit of a relief that we don't get there. i really don't know. i shall put it in the laps of the gods, or the travel agents.