Home and updates

It is Sunday morning early, East coast US time. I arrived "home" a little over 8 hours ago and have had a quick sleep, steak, salad and corn, and my first wash with warm water in over 2 months.

The house on Nantucket is in a little moor, just at the airport end of Surfside. I fell asleep on the flight from EWR, but woke up in time for a perfect view of Martha's Vineyard and then the various Nantucket points and south shore before circling ACK to make a N to S landing. The skies were puffy cloud blue from Newark to Massachusetts.

Will P has surprised me with a finished photo of a series I started on the BLCU campus, in the last weeks of class. This globe started out life as a huge bamboo woven ball. As the scaffolding got built and the globe got put into place I took pictures. I never saw it without the scaffolding.

I seem to have a few hundred characters that I can get onto paper without prompting. I am going to see how I can build sentences from them, and I am going to work on adding from the many more characters I can recognize. My flatmate, Grahame gave me some language tapes that have been much more helpful for conversation practice than class was. I have been working with them to practice more mundane conversations than class ever managed. ( What do you do with a dialog about cigarette smoking?)

Sadly, my shoulder seems to be aggravated, so I will need to work on rotator cuff things for a few days to counter the various insults I have flung at the weak thing. When I wake up next, I will work on the police and security stories and the Erik hair cutting.

I miss chats with Erik, Kim, Jessica, Chen Ran, Will, Kelly and the various nuts on the CSA tour. I didn't always run into them, but the times I did were very important for my personal comfort level as I dealt with my China summer. I am very grateful for my family's understanding and love. I could not have been away so long without their support. I hope everyone calls me soon. I can't wait to hear their voices. I hope that I will be able to keep up with my China summer acquaintances, and that they will become friends.