It's been a busy, but productive week. On Tuesday, I surprised David by attending the Esperanto meeting in Acton. I had also convinced Jacob to attend and discussed strategy for making progress in ESNE. In order to make it easier to produce electronic copies of the newsletter and to pass copies of articles around by email, we're planning to produce the newsletter using TeX. I found some templates that were originally developed for 
R News and spent several hours exploring whether or not we could adapt them for our purposes. It looks like they'll work great. Our current editor is not computer savvy enough to deal with using TeX, so we've gotten him to agree to let Jacob be the "technical editor" and do the final document layout and production. It's another critical piece of progress.
Lucy and I held our second Esperanto meeting in Amherst. It was a big success, in that we went there and had our meeting. I've been working on getting the word out, but there's still a lot of work to be done. I succeeded in putting up posters and cards in a few places. I also got announcements sent off to the Valley Advocate and Hampshire Life supplement. My next plans are to distribute some used books to used book stores, try to get a display at the library, and see if I can get an announcement on ACTV. I'm hoping that by the time school begins, I'll have stuff up in a variety of places around town and I'll feel more comfortable about holding the meetings. We've been reading La Morto de la Delegito de UEA by Nikolao Hohlov (It's available as a zip compressed PDF file.) It's from the 1920s and presents an interesting perspective regarding what Esperanto was like then and how people then thought it might be in the future.
It's again the last minute before Fulbright applications are due. I've had the idea for a couple of years of trying to do something with Esperanto on a sabatical. I've sent some notes out to see if someone might be interested in writing an invitation that would allow me to apply for a Fulbright. Time is short and the likelihood is not really high, but it's be exciting to give it a try. I sent a note to the UEA list and got a reply right away from Humphrey Tonkin who provided a lengthy list of people to contact, so I got letters sent off to them immediately. The list of countries is wonderful: Austria, Brazil, Germany, Holland, Hungary, India, and Poland. Going overseas with the family seems both exciting, terrifying, and impossible.