i'm not much up to writing thoughtful and long, detailed entries these days. nor quick, neat blogs. the following will be more telegraphic than anything else. to wit:


  • 10 new students this year, practically thronging!
  • most of whom don't have traditional jc backgrounds and quite a bit of military (airforce) experience
  • one rjc humanz!
  • parents galore. i wonder why i shouldn't bring mine one of these days. would quite like them to meet the kirtlands.
  • gordon insisted on being "french" and kissing people
  • fei's mother as usual terribly nice, although to my embarrassment calls me a "virginia loyalist" in front of the other parents *duck*
  • delicious mango cake
  • shawn and hooi see are married
  • toddlers galore too. regina and alexander with babies in strollers
  • retrieved a lost relation by brashly saying "hello, i believe you used to be married to one of my aunts"
  • new students v lively and boisterous and four boys to boot
  • don't like being asked for soundbites: "what's the one thing you'll tell the new students?" because mind goes completely blank.
  • how about "make a pilgrimage to bryan 406 and kowtow to nohrnberg?"
  • gordon asks if i want to tutor his elder daughter in latin. bad idea because my latin isn't that good and she strikes me as being an intense and unyieldingly serious girl and quite formidable
  • gordon appalled to find out i skipped nearly all of graduation. .
  • gordon praises von (undeserved of course)
  • gordon explains to others, shaking his head, that von is a guy who turned down a scholarship to virginia to go to "some school in cambridge massachussetts"
  • son of von's mother's friend's relative comes to me and say "did i hear you say "vaughn" just now?" and introduces self
  • already discussed washington transfer girl who turned out to be a guy. gave me a lift home after the party.
  • sat with michelle gozum at dinner. still a cool and inspiring woman! said she'll invite me to her "art" party next month to mingle with local artists. that could be fun.
  • met dabney carr. whose ancestors turn out to have given their name to carr's hill and who has the right to be buried at monticello. that carr!
  • there could be a darden empire in singapore.
  • miss uva and charlottesville.