i'm in northampton, ma now....after a long, overnight flight from seattle last night. phoebe & i arrived early in the morning and jumped onto the valley transporter, where we encountered another smithie here for her 10 year reunion. since we were arriving so early, we dropped off our stuff and then just wandered around. it's so sad to see the fine arts center completely torn down...and then to see this temporary engineering building--so ugly compared to the rest of campus. but aside from that, everything's lovely. i chatted briefly with my former econ professor, jim in the morning...and then shopped around town. finally, at 3pm, we were able to check in and found out that we're staying at baldwin house. now i'm in the library as i kill time...i'm supposed to meet julia in half an hour...i'm excited--she's been out of the country so long..it'll be great to catch up with her.