On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:31:22 -0700 "Melissa DiSpaltro"
 writes:

> >partings are often bittersweet....
> >but there may be blessings you never expected in the detour
> 
> Yes, I'm counting on that.

you need to BUILD some of it, too....
"bloom where you're planted" puts onus on both the plant & the
evironment.
=she types, kicking that soapbox back out of the way=
> 
> >(speaking as a person who has a life made of living that way)
> 
> Heh... I've generally found that being Sent somewhere is a prelude 
> to   Something Good. So I'm not stressing.

very Good...

> > > Lissa ButAtLeastIHaveAJob! Wingling
> >
> >And there's that, too.
> >
> >Steady income is not to be underrated.... tygress
> 
> Not when 300 teachers in Seattle were laid off...

argh

> >[[So the Oklahoma trip has been cancelled?]]
> 
> 'Fraid so. Or put off, at least. This is my last chance to go to DC 
> for only 
> the cost of the flight; the friend who lives there will be moving 
> back to 
> Cleveland soon, as she & her husband are wanting to start a family, 
> and she   wants to be near her mother when they do.

hey, can't compete with the Smithsonian....

> So, I go to DC this summer instead of Austin. :(

no worries, be happy now.... there will be other years.

> Maybe spring break of next year, though... that's a definite 
> possibility for   me, if it works for you all.

too far away to plan

> And it looks like "Prisoner of Azkaban" the movie will be seen 
> in--get this--ENGLAND!  

=envy!=

> I have an invitation from a woman who's admin for 
> gryffindortower.net (one of the "queens of H/G"--Imogen) to come 
> visit her 
> next summer for a PoA party. A whole *bunch* of us are apparently 
> going. AND 
> she teaches English, which means she & I are going to ditch everyone 
> else   for at least one day and toddle off to Stratford-upon-Avon.
Woohoo!

get to Avebury if you can.
(I'd take Tintern, as well, over Stratford -- that place was, well
indescribable.)

But y'all will fit in what you can fit in....

and I'm jealous.

=hugs=

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families and friends are with us, and the decisions we make ripple beyond
the shores within view. -- Jill Fredston
There are times when instant arrival would be nice, but then you wouldn't
 get anything out of the journey. --Kathy Wilson
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