Guess what? I am going on vacation! That's right, vacation. We (me, my moms, Ms. Joya and Ms. Liz) are leaving on Sunday and not coming back until the following Sunday. I am so excited. We are going to Ocracoke Island in the Outer Banks of NC and supposedly Blackbeard used to hang out there. That's not the only reason we are going. It is 16 miles of beach and island zaniness of the 1950s resort variety. It is waaaay out on the Outer Banks, beyond Cape Hatteras, beyond Nag's Head, beyond all the over-priced over-crowded OB hang-outs. We're going isolated. For instance, we are encouraged to ride bikes,not drive. There are cutesy coffeeshops, people have weird morphings of a British accent and we are surrounded by ocean. I am so excited I can barely make it through the next two days. Seriously, it's like the kind of beach house vacation I always daydreamed about, but never got it together enough to plan. I'm hoping it will be *kind of* like the "Dirty Dancing" resort vacation, but I'm not holding my breath. As long as it doesn't turn into "I Know What You Did Last Summer," I think we will be good.
Yay! Vacation!
Okay, I will stop rubbing it in.
What else? I've been laying pretty low. My writing class ended, the stories got kind of better, and I'm reading "All the King's Men.*" It is fantastic. It combines the Shanono Literary Holy Trinity: Politics, The South and Good Narrative. It's really fascinating, and kind of an allegory. I highly recommend it. Alright, i'm off for the beach!
*No, I'm not reading it because it happened to be what Jude Law was filming during Nannygate. Though the irony is not lost on me that this is what he was filming--playing a slightly moral protagonist not unlike Nick in the Great Gatsby--when he dropped trou.
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