Where in the world is everybody?

Family that I love! Another apology for not keeping in touch very well. I miss everyone. It's been about four months since I've been back to VT and some of you I haven't seen in longer, BOOOO. I am hoping to get home for like two weeks in august, but we'll see what my schedule is like. I have to find a new job in august because freyja and katla are going back to playschool and I'll need to have a job at school, so I've been applying for waitressing jobs, so far to no avail. I actually bought a wig, hahaha, and am going to wear it on my next job search, to see if perhaps people are taking one look at my majorly awkward hair length (I knew growing it out would be tedious, but i had no idea it would be this bad) and deciding against me. Haha, just a little social experiment, I'll keep you updated on how it goes. If nothing else, it is SO FUN to be able to flip my hair over my shoulder again.

In other news, Baldur's oldest daughter Hekla, who is twelve, has just arrived on American soil, straight from Reykjavik, and she has been spending days with Katla and Freyja and me. She's great, she cracks me up. In her own words, "there aren't a lot of alive things in Iceland", so she LOVES going to the park, and I am getting more intimately familiar with squirrels than i ever thought I would... we have been examining them with such thoroughness I wonder if we might have some insight for biology's general benefit. She also plays guitar (or Gee-tar), as she pronounces it, and has been serenading us all week. She's quite good actually, I'm very impressed. She speaks English quite well, but her vocabulary is fraught with slang and swears, which makes me think that they don't carry the same weight as adopted in Iceland: she really is the sweetest, most gentle little girl, and I'm always a little taken aback when she says something like "I think there is an ice cream shop on 12th street or some f*cking thing."

Our cousin Samantha, who graduated from college this year, just moved to the house where her mom grew up, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is living in the apartment on the top floor. I have been sleeping over there for several nights because she has air conditioning, haha, and of course because it's great to have a friend with whom to order chinese food and watch lifetime original movies. Tabby, Hannah, Samantha, Ellina's college roommate Lauren (who I have gotten to know through Ellina and has had a few job interviews in the city, and so has stayed with me several times) all went to the Bryant Park Summer Film Festival the other night and saw "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" with Marilyn Monroe, and it was as sexist and ridiculous and absolutely fantastic as I expected it to be. The park was packed, we got there at 6:00 and brought a big picnic, thinking that since the movie didn't start until 9 (when sun sets), three hours would be plenty of time. But even then we only got seats on the gravel, all the spots on the lawn had been taken. But our picnic was great anyway and it was so great to see the movie outside on this huge screen and look up occasionally and see the empire state building to the south and the New York Public Library to the East. Quite the experience.

I am going to Bikram Yoga tonight, and am so excited. It's supposed to be one of the most amazing workouts, because there is a furnace in the studio so it's always above one hundred degrees, and therefore your cardiovascular rate goes way up. I've just been getting so bored running on the treadmill at the gym, I'm excited to change it up. Also it is supposed to be like a complete cleanse for your body because you sweat all your toxins out, so I have this image in my mind of walking out a whole new person-- though realistically I'll be walking out with sweaty bangs plastered to my forehead, makeup dripping, smelling like I just went for a twenty mile run...

I went running with Aunt Lauren on Sunday in Central Park, and it was a really nice run. She always says she's needs to have an easy jog but I wind up huffing and puffing to keep up, hahaha... we'll see, maybe after a couple weeks of bikram yoga she will be struggling to keep up with me haha.

Hope everyone starts writing again, I need to be updated on people's lives!

Love you and miss you! See you soon I hope!

xox