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*waves* At Mara's house currently - she's at work for a couple of hours, so I'm lazing around her room and checking internet stuff. Anyway. Managed to get to see Skuld Friday night before she left, although I missed the 5:40 train in and thus all of the actual party. Met her at her place, though, and we sat around with a few other people and played Mario Party and Mario Kart Doubledash, which was fun. I then helped her finish packing, and in the process wound up with a new backpack full of random food and fabric bits and books, that she was getting rid of. We then made ourselves some cups of tea, and sat around on the front steps and talked for a while, which was good - I think I kind of needed it after the last couple of days. She left by taxi for the airport, and I crashed in a spare room in the basement.

Saturday I woke up far too early for my tastes, had a bad cup of tea, and headed to the trains. Got up to Haverhill alright, and met Mara in the very hot weather - 87F. Because there were a bunch of people at her house, we opted to wander around the antique stores there for a bit, and then head to Exeter, where we did some more browsing, I had a wonderful bacon tomato sandwich - that was less than five dollars, too - and then, finally, we headed back to her house. We played some DDR, and went swimming in a brief summer shower, and then went to see Madagascar, which I had seen already, but didn't mind seeing again. We did some shopping before-hand - I picked up Vienna Teng's album Warm Strangers, and we bought cheese and crackers that we then proceded to sneak into the movie theatre. After that, we went back to her house, which was again full of people, played a little bit more DDR, and watched Blade. Then we went to sleep, and now she's at work, and I'm going to read Shoebox Project.

Love to all, thank you guys <3