Summer in a Moment
June 29th I told R. that I haven't been able to sleep the past two nights--up in the thin hours with panic-brain. It's pretty hard to find something to panic about these days, he said. Of course, I can panic about anything . He and D. are heading to Armenia today and then to Cambridge where D. will be spending the summer on study abroad. We briefly had a discussion of me joining them in London for a few days, but complicating factors (my passport was lost years ago, and is most definitely expired anyway; planning an international trip in a few weeks was enough to send me into a tailspin. Instead, we decided to move our future-Europe trip up to next summer. Anyway, I still don't like him leaving because I only know how to catastrophize, but I'm also glad D. isn't going alone. Anyway. R. is right though--after a year (and honestly, the decade before that) of panic, things are...normal. J. is home for the summer and applying for any job he can find. Today he intervie...