Almost there

Believe it or not I'm writing this post in Charlottesville, in the Downtown Mall area filled with little shops--a straight shot to the University of Virginia campus. I walked into an awesome used bookstore (Daedalus), bought Randall Jarrell's Poetry and the Age, which I've been meaning to find or buy on Amazon and came across in the poetry section, and Selected Poems by Thom Gunn. (David recommended Gunn to me a few months ago and I haven't had a chance to read him just yet.)

Backtracking a little: I made the trip over to see Christian Wiman give a lecture here today (it starts in about 50 minutes), at Christ Episcopal Church. Incidentally, while I was in this bookstore, I met two guys who worked at the Church and had just come from lunch with Wiman! Go figure. Excited, eager, looking forward to meeting Wiman, though I did have the opportunity a year and a half ago at AWP in Chicago.

Anyway, this also marks my last week in Virginia before I leave for Greece! I leave for Pennsylvania at 3:30 am on Friday morning, stay home for a couple weeks to get everything in order, and then take off from Washington DC (Dulles International) on the 7th of June! Packing to be done, passports to be copied, phone and bank arrangements to be made...

Not quite a reality, so not quite real. Perhaps once I land.

More soon, all.

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Update, after reading: