Monday, October 30th

Time flies when you have company. And now I already feel sad, he is leaving in 2 days, we are already discussing what to do on our last evening together (have dinner just the 2 of us or go out for dinner with L and J = person who rents me her house + boyfriend). I have got very used to having him here, we would work together in the mornings at home, then drive to the university where

he would disappear into the library, and I would go to my grey hole, to be picked up round about 5 or 6 to drive home again and have dinner together. It's going to feel lonely without him when I drive back from the airport on Wednesday. Life will become more work focused again (says she who just managed to take off 2 weekends + part of Monday - with bad conscience but still better than the past weeks). I even manage to sleep whole nights since he has been here.

But, I treasure my last not quite two months here - however much I don't want him to go, I do not want to go with him, not one hair of me has thought, I wish I could step on that plane to Amsterdam (hairs have thought, if he stayed here..)

So the picture is of a drive we took on Sunday down the connecticut river to the shore. We never really got to stand by the sea because it is all private property, but we had a great time. Also visited New Haven which B liked (and I knew I liked). Took some good pictures of me leaning on my car - to treasure later on when I tell my children, this was the first car I ever had, and I only got it when I was 31 (and then managed to back it into a tree so the antennae did not work, and the windows decided to stop opening so every time I had to pay toll I had to open the door to take the ticket...).