I got back two days ago from yet another trip. This time it was off to Poughkeepsie, NY to visit the new Chenette house. As always, it was wonderful to see the family, but it was also really great to see that our new home is beautiful and spacious with a terrific back yard, across the street from a gorgeous college, and located in a beautiful and fascinating area of the country. (I'm not as taken with Poughkeepsie itself, but there are a lot of good things to balance it out.) Mom, Dad, and May all seem to be doing great and enjoying their new experiences! I also headed to the wedding of Alaina and Mike Nigh, which was really fun. Congratulations to them!

All the traveling I've been doing this summer may sound ideal, and in some ways it has been: every trip has been terrific! But when so many trips are of extended length ( a week or more), these travels stop being a special thing you do as a break from normal life, and start to become part of it: it's like I've been shuttling between many different lives, all very exciting, but I'd be happy to have just one that is occasionally exciting. Still, I have a little traveling left before me. By the end of the summer, I will have been to:

Sugar Creek, IN (canoeing)
Boston and Western Massachussetts
various cities in Turkey
Ireland
Grinnell, IA
Squire Boone Caverns, IN (caving)
Poughkeepsie, NY
St Louis, MO
Rodney, Ontario (probably)
Davenport, IA

Suffice it to say I'm savoring my time in Bloomington. I made a surprisingly good Imam bayıldı last night and today am leaping back into some old scholarly favorites--the Liber Usualis, Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame, and good old Guido of Arezzo in preparation for teaching this semester. It's an odd feeling to be getting back into the scholarly world, but a good one too, and I'm excited to be back to school soon!