After writing my little ode to my home region, I found several other pictures that I wish I had used. So I'll post them as a supplemental. If anything can be said of this area of the world, it's pretty to look at.
Come to the Riverton Fair, with ten minutes worth of things to see and an hours worth of food to devour.
Fall is pretty nice.
More fall.
Well, that's all for now regarding northwest Connecticut. It, by definition, isn't that interesting a place.
As for me, I've been on spring break since Saturday. My academic steel was put to the test last week, a test which I think I (mostly) passed. I read Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion in its entirety despite having numerous other time consuming tasks on my plate. I am not an inordinately fast reader; I like to take my time, since part of the fun of reading is understanding the material with as much depth as possible, and second readings are typically not things I can afford. I worked incredibly hard, and I'm proud. Should I ever have the chance to tackle a doctoral program, I think I'll do okay. I hope. Maybe. Working on confidence might also be a worthy use of my time.
As for the book itself, it was spectacular. I'd now list it as one my favorites. I find that I'm attracted to literature about specific locales within the United States, and Notion is just that. I really like Kesey. I wish he had spent more time writing novels and less time being an idiot on a bus. Incidentally, the novel made me want to see Oregon. I can be a tourist from "back east." I'd get a kick out of that. You can't be "back east" when you've never really left the east.
And, as a final word on travels, I feel it necessary to concoct an ode to my new home, Lappeenranta, Finland sometime in the near future. I do love it there, and I want my readers to love it, too.
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