After my rant about Moonshadow, I think I need a mental vacation...
Some people dream about the mountains, others about the ocean -- I've been to those places, but my favorite is in northern Minnesota...
In my mental vacation it is July.
July is hot in the Twin Cities but cool up north by the lake. I have with me a great book (not dissertation related) and a camp chair overlooking the lake. A few minutes ago I was wading up to my knees in the clear water. I saw the pebbles on the bottom of the lake and my toes looked just a little green.
On the other side of the lake someone is fishing in a canoe accompanied only by his golden lab. It is a weekday, so nobody else is around. As I sit there with my bare feet proped up to dry on an old stump, I wonder if it will get warm enough this afternoon for a swim. Although a swim would be nice, if we really want to get clean we'll go down the road to Mom's and use a real bathroom. In a few minutes I'm going to start thinking about lunch (BP & J or tuna salad is a hard choice), but for right now I can smell the pine trees, feel the breeze on my knees and watch the small ripples on the water.
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Why don't you go and make it real for a day or two?
Maybe I will --- we'll be up north week after next for a few days... maybe I could convince hubby to stop for a few days.
July is just too short, with hubby heading to Nebraska in August -- I don't want to leave town without him again, TFC was enough...
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