PS to the Last

This summer, I think I have determined that, should I do this Foreign Service thing for a living, I will bring some warm-blooded, animate being along with me. (The top two on the list right now are “husband” and “dog.” The former would be preferable, I think, because you can take husbands more places, you wouldn’t have to quarantine them, and they are capable of engaging in conversation. But I cannot go about proposing to men, so a plan B was created, which depends entirely on my own initiative. Hence, “dog.” Yet this is rather a digression…)

All of this was begun to say that I am being visited, starting tomorrow, by a most excellent “warm-blooded, animate” being: Daniel (my brother). He will be making his belated senior trip to Riga, where the two of us will turn the town upside down with our adventures :)… at least for a three and a half day weekend, after which time I will have to go to back work and leave him to get into mischief by himself… which I am fully sure he will be able to do :). I am a very happy person :).