The end of a season.

Time to Settle Accounts

September 16, 2011: The end of a season.

It was 9:30 Thursday morning, the first chilly post-summer day. I was working at my desk, and Justin was working at his, as is our custom. Rob, ordinarily heard shuffling between his room and his desk and his kitchen now that he is finally done with his doctorate, was silent. He is returning to his home state of California with a good job in science awaiting him, and has spent much of the past two weeks loafing about, drinking afternoon and morning martinis, cleaning his room, and bulldozing his way through the first two seasons of The Wire and the last two seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm.