New England

I've been giving a friend at work advice about places to stay in Williamstown and how to get to and from. A few nights ago I was looking over the touring schedules for a couple of folk singers I like, who operate mostly in MA and CT.

The feelings that well up in me when I look at maps of the Berkshires, or read familiar New England place names, remind me where "home" really is to me. I don't feel this way about Tidewater; it's familiar, and it's interesting to see how places there change (or stay the same), but wherever I go (and I look forward to going many places), I think that the place that will always mean the most to me are the low, long mountains of New England, the endless forests, the country roads and small towns of the Berkshires, and the dirty, scruffy streets of Cambridge, Boston, and New Haven.

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I'm not sure what dimension I'm in. Gilbert just let me pick him up, and he sat on my lap (well, arm) for about half an hour while I petted him and watched Veronica Mars. He purred the whole time.

I should take him to the vet; he can't be well...

polyamory

I should also register my amusement that Loving More continues to feature as a side item on Studio 60. I'm watching the latest ep right now, and someone made a joke about LM being "the sex people", in response to which the character who brought them into the story proceeds to rattle of a five-second "No, really, they are people who believe in..." speech, in the tone of someone who feels a bit defensive and doesn't quite believe what he's saying, but feels as if he *ought* to.

I'm still not inclined to re-introduce that into my life, but I can't help but remember the way Aaron Sorkin wrote MLS into many of his Sports Night scripts, with one of the star characters mocking it until he got an almighty smackdown from the rest of the cast. (And there was always an official MLS ball in the main characters' office...)

Maybe poly really has become an accepted subculture. :-)