this seems to be a summer of reunions. young darryl has no sooner stepped on a plane to japan than it emerges that old jared is returning from florida to do summer teaching for logic mills. and i find out that lily yang, my student host from uva, now working in taiwan for a tv news station, is in singapore to attend a wedding, so i shall certainly meet up with her. and then there's the annual uva send-off party next weekend, which makes me feel i ought to be writing this entry in orange and blue, but perhaps i can leave that till the party proper. and the week after that, our suyin, newly-married and here in singapore to present her blushing bridegroom to us at what she insists is not a wedding reception, which lunch will probably resemble an rgs party (i don't think i've seen the non-humanz part of 4/12 for a very long time.)

we've reached the age where reunions actually do for us what they are meant to.

also the age when - what has shaken me most - our college professors' children are now college students, to be taught in sections by our slightly chagrined selves, still in awe of their parents. (this is true. enter the last names of your former english department faculty members on facebook, and see how many of them show up as harvard freshmen majoring in your field..)