Current Ramblings
Sunday, October 05, 2003
I will be very happy when this stupid virus has run its course. I'm sick of having all these virus-bearing e-mails clogging up my inbox with their bloated 145-155k selves. I haven't gotten the virus, I'm just sick of the e-mails.
I'm going to Alabama in a week. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I have family down there. Family that I haven't seen, for the most part, for something like 8 years. Y'see, my immediate family lives in Washington, DC. I decided I should probably go visit them sometime soon, because I haven't been there since Graham, Walky and I crashed at their place on the way back from pestering Glen at Wizard World East, and that was just for a night. And they do have a new puppy, a miniature schnauzer named Peaches, who I also want to visit. I am easily lured by offers of puppies, especially ones I don't have to clean up after. So I called and asked my mom when I could come visit in October, and she said that they were going to Alabama for a week, and I could come along, they'd even fly me to Atlanta and pick me up. My knee-jerk reaction was "Hell no!" But the more I thought about it, the more I realized how sick I am of DC, and the more I realized that Alabama could be fun. We'll be staying at my grandfather's lakehouse, my mom's got a laptop so I won't be totally disconnected, and there'll certainly be more to do than hanging out with the one friend I have left in DC. I've been avoiding the place like the plague ever since I was old enough to get my parents to leave me behind when they went, but I think I'm enough of an adult to handle the culture shock. I'm hoping I don't have to fend off too many questions from relatives about why I'm 25 and don't have any kids and haven't even been married once. I guess that's what really bothers me, the idea that they won't know what to make of me. I'm on the fringes of normal society, down there I'd be a total outcast. But I'm sure I'll be okay. I'm determined to go to the restaurant near the lakehouse that serves chocolate fritters.
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