Coffee and Doughnuts

This is heaven. I am sitting at the B.'s kitchen table in Nantucket, enjoying my final bites of a blueberry doughnut, and reading jezebel. We are all sitting around the table, engrossed in our own activities. This trip to Nantucket is the perfect antidote to the stressful past two weeks. In fact, I never thought this time would come. I was desperately trying to finish my APSA paper, as well as move my prospectus forward in order to be ready for the poster session my advisor arranged. The Olympics did not help at all. I was up every night until around 1:00 and I was up by 6:00 so I could run and lift. To say I was perpetually exhausted is an understatement. But alas, by 7:30 pm on Thursday, my paper had been uploaded and the poster session was over.

On Friday Dan and I left for Boston. We met up with Dan's friend H. and then took a ferry to Nantucket, where we stayed with H.'s family. Their rambling house has a lovely cottage in the background, where Dan and I are staying. It is all a little Waugh-esque, minus the British manners. Anyway, we had a lovely day on Friday and yesterday we went to the beach, explored a light-house, and did a little shopping. This was capped off by a delicious birthday dinner at B.'s house.

The house is currently fill as H.'s cousins are here as well. They are so lovely! They also have seven dogs and I am so surprised by how much I love them. Dan and I are seriously considering getting one after we are married. We'll have to consult the girls, of course.

Today is our last day on the island. The rest of the week will be spent in Boston. We'll be returning to Ann Arbor on Saturday, and then we leave for Mexico City on Sunday to begin our wedding planning in earnest. This is making me tired just thinking about it. For right now I will concentrate on enjoying myself.