From mid-July to mid-August I’m going to go off to the Pacific Northwest to work in some archives there. I think this trip is will be the first of a few to this specific archive, but here we go! First trip! I’ve never been to the the Pacific Northwest before and if I’m being totally, totally honest, my visual impressions of it are largely gleaned from Frasier, the first Twilight movie, and Twin Peaks. So I understand it to be a very sophisticated area of the country with good coffee, big trees, and no sunshine ever.
This trip is a momentous occasion not only because it involves working on the book but also because it will be my first time being totally on my own since the great unpleasantness of 2022. Since it still exists only in the future, however, what it mostly means in practice, at the present time, is that I have spent the last few weeks and the weeks to come meticulously packing and unpacking the suitcase that currently exists only in my mind. I me…