there is an english department reception in one of the gardens on saturday. i wonder if nohrnberg will go. there are very many teachers i want to talk to though, and i hope they will be there. sometimes i wonder how i could have got anywhere without the kindness and brilliance of all those who have taught me and i feel so deeply grateful to them. i wonder if people will be in their offices the next week for me to say goodbye.

i need to email nohrnberg about something though i don't quite dare.

nobody hears about your triumphs but everybody sure does know about your peccadilloes. a teacher i hadn't seen for nearly the whole semester said, when i ran into her yesterday, so i heard you got into some kind of trouble with your thesis? *sigh* of course, she probably is on the distinguished majors committee, but still. how come news doesn't get around that "there goes a clever girl"? nope. just "hey, weren't you in some trouble last week?" alas.