half way

We are now just about half way through the week at Viable Paradise. The weather has been very cooperative, enough that we had a nice walk out to the beach last night to view the glow-in-the-dark jellyfish and the amazing starscape above the island.

Things seem to also be going smoothly, both in terms of the students and in terms of managing them -- particularly meals have gone very much to plan, which is largely do to the efforts of my fellow staffy, Mac, who is one of the more unstoppable, upbeat people I have met in a long time. Also, all the instructors are their usual high level of wonderful. I've been too busy to catch much of the lectures this time, but I've had some fantastic conversations and listened in on many more. One of the great things about VP is that it makes me feel so very much at home, part of a community, and that sense is extremely rare for me -- conventions come closest, but even there I do feel like an outsider much of the time.

We managed to make a run across the island to Menemsha with just about the entire body of students to a restaurant called The Bite, which apparently has the best quahog chowder and fried clams in the country. Being not a seafood eater I can't judge, but they made a quite decent chicken sandwich too (-:

I'm exhausted but doing good, but rather behind on LJ -- internet access is sadly sporadic.