if i want to be in charlottesville over spring break i'd better start planning. 10 hours on a train is intolerable, and more expensive than flying, but not if i don't find a air ticket soon. let's see now, the farmers' market won't yet be open till late april, so i needn't arrange to go back on a market day. i should probably get into town on a wednesday night, so that i have all of thursday to pounce on my favourite teachers and to sit in on one or even two nohrnberg classes. possibly i can ask the norhnbergs to dinner on the weekend, make that a friday or a saturday night, depending on their schedule. friday is departmental meeting day, so i expect there will be lots of people to pounce on as well. i have tons of suggestions about the undergraduate curriculum too. perhaps tucker can be taken to lunch. then again barbara nolan usually teaches on tuesdays, so perhaps i should do sun-wed instead, which would give me some time to pay a call on the nohrnbergs on the weekend, that hopefully shouldn't be too inconveniencing because nohrnberg doesn't teach on mondays, and then i could see nolan after her tuesday class, and swing out of town by wednesday morning.

or, she admits reluctantly, she could just stay here over break like any right-minded and responsible young person working on her papers.