a change in plans

hi loves,

i'm finding this entry difficult to write! it's not often that plans change so swiftly and without any concrete reasons..

basically, i concluded last week that i was sick of walking the appalachian trail, and so found a fully furnished room in greenfield to live in for the month of july before my job begins in boston (august 9th).

maybe you're interested in why i quit the trail.. why i decided to live temporarily in greenfield.. and what my job is in boston..

impossible to explain without writing a book! maybe i'll write a book now that i'm hanging out unemployed in greenfield! hahaha..

quit the trail for many reasons, the main one being that i am supposed to be superbly happy and free in the time before i begin working a job, and since i was not superbly happy on the trail, i exercised my freedom and found a room in a place where i can be, at least, happy. greenfield: reasonable distance from destry, becky, sara dz, and other amherst friends. a space to be alone and read and write and go for long walks in the countryside (without a pack) and live peacefully (unwind) before things get hectic again in boston, hopefully. the job is at a charter school that does some neat shit, many more info's on that in august!

i moved into the house in greenfield saturday afternoon! and i love it! i'm actually living in the renovated second-floor of the barn, which is a huge sweet-ass pad with a sofa and comfy chairs and a big old bed and a mini-fridge next to the bed, stocked with my dad's homebrew... my landlord is a gay catholic priest - his church is on the first floor of the barn (yesss..!). but mostly he's just a kind oldish man who likes to feed all the funny people who live under his roof! (free food!)

i descended upon noho today to hang out with becky... we ate frozen yogurt and swam in the deerfield river and had dinner at viva fresh pasta where the waiter hit on me without any shame... no shame whatsoever. ridiculous. and now i'm in haymarket surfing the nets and waiting for destry to drive by on her way home from maine! yay!

i love you all soo so much!

rach