This week has been amazing, which is good because I had a horrible last end of the week. Saturday I went down to Cape Cod with my family for a few days. My parents rented a house right on the beach, on the bay side of the ocean. It was nice to get away and relax for a few days. My parents just got back today but I came back Wednesday. The mornings were a little hazy and cloudy but by noontime it was hot and sunny. Because it was the bay side, the water was slightly warmer because it was calmer. There were still waves, but not the huge ones like you would get on the other side. When it was low tide, the shoreline was about 200 yards from the beach, and when it was high tide, the shoreline was about 5 feet from the beach.

As you can see, the low tide, you see can how far out the water goes. This is what we looked at every night as we sat out on the beach with our beers and food. The beach has this funny thing of making everything better even when it’s not. I was content, sitting out there, with a book, a beer, and SPF 45. We only went out to dinner once, and when we did, I had the best swordfish of my life. But other than that, we cooked food at the house. My aunt, uncles, and cousins were there too, so it was one big party.

We also found a lot of dead sea creatures. There are tons of dead crabs, horseshoe crabs, and unfortunately for this dear one, a stingray. I’ve never seen one in the wild before. Of course you see them all the time at the aquarium, but this was different. His name was Stephano, and we had a proper burial for him. He was a good little stingray I bet, and by the looks of him, though he was still relatively young, he glided through the waters of Massachusetts with pride. My younger cousin and I one night as the tide was going out went hunting for hermit crabs. We came back with a bucket FULL of them.

These are my footprints as the tide was coming in. It’s a large sandbar, and bits and pieces get covered up before the rest of the beach does. This was a lonely little island out in the middle of the beach that was soon to get swept away. Clean sand is like freshly fallen snow. You just HAVE to ruin it with your footprints. It’s too pure for it to stay pure. So that was pretty much my vacation. It was glorious, but now it’s back to work. I meant it when I said that the beach erases your problems. It’s just that when you leave the beach, they’re still waiting for you at home.

The Dark Knight came out on July 18th, and I’ve seen it twice already, once at midnight on the 18th, and again last night. Last night we tried to see it in IMAX but my friend never got the tickets so we saw it in the regular theatre again anyways. So I’m still waiting for the IMAX, 3rd times a charm!

Update: New theme! I took this photo as the tide was coming in. If you look closely, you can see people walking on the sand behind the water. Still trying to work out the kinks.

Day 1

The flight was surprisingly smoother until we reached the top of Lake Michigan. As we started to descend it got bumpy because we started into the clouds, which sucked. I hate to fly really anyways and I expect the shitty turbulence, but I still hate it. I got into O’Hare at around 12:30, grabbed my luggage and went over to the bus station and caught the 1:30 bus to Rockford. I played my DS the entire way practically except when there was a thunderstorm. My nose was glued to the window watching the cloud to ground lightning. Ajemi sent me a text message telling me that there was a tornado 10 minutes away from where she was picking me up. It was awesome! We didn’t see it unfortunately, but we did go to Panera Bread, stuff ourselves silly and then went to her softball game. After that we drove up to her parents house and called it a night.

Day 2

Saturday was Ajemi’s bridal shower and bachelorette party. It was hotter than the hinges of hell and the building where we held the shower had no air conditioning. The food was fantastic and we played games. I think people were slightly miserable because it was so hot but overall I think they had fun. Brandie, Loni, Ajemi and I did, and I think that’s all that matters! She got a lot of great gifts and afterwards Ajemi looked at me and said ‘I never thought I’d see the day where I’d be excited to get gifts I can use to cook.’ Oh the joys of being a grownup. After the shower, we went back to her parent’s house and got ready for the party. We met at the bar at around 7, had a drink and then got on the bus and went bar hopping. We all had a great time, bar hopping, drinking on the bus and playing games. It was a great day, and we got home around 4am.

Day 3

Brandie, Ajemi and I went into Rockford to try and find bridesmaid dresses for Saturday. After about 2 stores we found some in JC Penney. The dresses are beautiful, and they’re red. We didn’t have to compromise anything, which is good because Ajemi was willing to settle, and you don’t settle when it’s your wedding. After the mall, we went to Panera Bread and then to Coldstone for ice cream. Brandie had never had Coldstone before so it was a treat! When we got back to her parent’s house we loaded up the car and just as we were about leave, the skies unleashed their fury. There were tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings all over the county. There was a funnel cloud spotted 3 miles south of the town and then another spotted right outside their town, so we waited it out for a bit and then left. We were on the lookout for funnel clouds/tornadoes all the way home but once we hit Rockford, it seemed to die down completely. I really wanted to see a tornado, or at least a funnel cloud.

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Even in the winter I can’t stay away from the beach. My friend and I went up to Maine today to York Beach. It was snowing of course but has that even stopped anyone? No way. We got there surprisingly fast (we even went the speed limit). It took us only about a half hour from Massachusetts. We went to lunch and then we walked along the beach. After that we went and drove out to the lighthouse. Then after that we went up to Ogunquit and walked along that beach. Pictures will be posted soon, I’m too lazy to do it now.

Did I mention that this friend is the sister to the brother that I dedicated the previous post to? But whatever, she’s not him.

This week is spring break and I intend to enjoy every minute of it. Well not really, but I intend to enjoy most of it. I have a lot of work that I need to get down this week, and it will be a good time to catch up on all of the work that I’ve been slacking on. I have a large paper due on Monday, and also auditions for my final Directing Workshop piece. I have an exam on that Friday and another paper due that Wednesday. So I want to get most of it out of the way this week so I can focus on this exam.

I started joining fanlistings again, see them here. I figured out Enthusiast and am using that to manage them. Like I need another project to update right? Oh well, I sometimes am ambitious.

SuchAFan.Org is on it’s feet. I know I’ll only talk about baseball but whatever, I love it. It’s different from this because baseball is my life in the spring/summer. It consumes me. I’ve also joined Bleacher Report which is absolutely amazing too. I think it’s because when I’m writing there, I’m confident because I know what I’m talking about and I love what I’m talking about. Here, it’s not so certain because my life isn’t certain. I’m at a point in my life where I don’t know where I’m going. I graduate college in a few months and I have no idea what I want to do afterwards. I’m at a point in my life where I know that I never want to get married and I never want to have kids, but will that change? Each day is a different page in a different story because I’m constantly changing. Maybe that’s why sometimes I don’t like to write here because I don’t like not knowing where I’m going, but I also know that that’s what makes life interesting.

Am I making sense?