Please close your eyes and pretend that you are reading this in August. Wait, that doesn’t make sense – you can’t read with your eyes closed. Please go ask your parent or guardian or Santa to read this to you, and close your eyes and pretend it’s August. Bonjour. Guten Tag. Καλή μέρα. Bom dia. Hey y’all. We haven’t spoken on this blog since France. I’m writing this from Maine by way of Austria and Greece and Portugal and DC/MD/NC/SC/GA/VA/NY or something (see here). You may recall that Rachel’s university had insisted she return on campus in person this fall; the result being that she told them auf wiedersehen, and…