i'm bright-eyed and bushy-tailed today, having got up at seven (to be the first at the post office, and avoid the clutter of graduating students you know) but it won't stop raining! frightfully inconvenient to wheel large boxes to town.) maybe i should go to houghton to have a look at that summa chiromantia manuscript again instead, but i am not in the least keen - the neck crick from working with microfilms lingers for days.

also, i'd keep packing only there are various pieces of furniture that von and jiancheng put together for me the last time they were here, and i can't seem to take them apart!

expectations of summer happiness:

bats swaying in the tree, ezlink cards, slim phones, kebayas, tamarinds trees under street lamps, cold crab, ornee, warm nights and dinner parties and kachang puteh and tealights and friends draped all over each other on addy's porch.