this past week has been spent mostly:
playing speed scrabble with gretchen at the kitchen table
reading raymond carver's "where i'm calling from"
driving around the countryside stopping in lots of little towns, getting out, walking around, perhaps drinking a coffee or eating a sandwich
reminiscing about food in portland/the us/talking about portland/the us in general
feeling a little bit awkward and like maybe we shouldn't be here because we're kind of just interrupting their life without a real invite and claudia seems kind of angry all the time and maybe really hates us
but then it's okay because gretchen wants us here and it's quite fun hanging out with her and having someone else to talk to who we know
that's about it. maybe alex will do a quick post too. pictures someday! tomorrow we're off to lazio, just north of rome, for a little pause in everything before heading to sardinia on thursday to pick olives for two weeks! hooray!
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Ursi, good thing Claudia won't be reading your blog! Just kidding, thanks for saying you like hanging out with me. AND the speed scrabble has been fun. We can laugh about all this next year, ciao!
claudia probably feels like shit due to horrid health--chemo is a lot like being crushed by a train and having to rebuild all connections at a cellular level-- my treatment was chemo and I was so angry I couldn't believe how hard it was to cope--so hard it was funny--like being injected with every bad feeling I'd ever had all at once, even depression,but I was so glad I'd had therapy and learned tricks to climb out of depression.
are u digging Raymond Carver??
the only new news in Burque is the one-ways are now two lanes with a BIKE LANE! Yea!
i know, it was just weird with her, but i understand that shes been through hell and therefore im not holding anything against her. we had a really nice time anyway, just with moments of awkwardness.
yeah, raymond carver was pretty intense, though a bit pure gloom for my taste. hooray for bike lanes! so cool!
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