i only have a few minutes — naturally, in a hurry, i’m drawing a blank. ilana and i are in the tiny rectangular room that serves as the library here. as far as i can tell, they have childrens books, a few magazines, and Grey’s anatomy. clearly, the essentials.
but they also have two computers which you can use for thirty minutes and i’m grateful. last nite i fell into a mild funk for the first time. when my mother asked me why, i said maybe i was in withdrawal. aside from that negligible dip and the spots of sunburn in rather uncomfortable places (one rarely thinks of putting lotion where one assumes the sun’s hands would be too respectful to roam) i’m having a wonderful time. if my intuition can be relied upon, ilana is as well. adam has four friends here who i think irk her by talking to me — but then, they know me, if only as the little sibling they’ve tormented in the past. mel and joanna are here as well. they’re family friends: mel is my dad’s age and joanna is adam’s. she and ilana are like polar opposites which at least one of them (guess which!) realizes. the craziness just keeps things interesting. the boys left to go fishing this morning. ilana and i decided to go driving. everyone so far has been doing their own thing and not getting in anyone else’s way.
there isn’t too much else to report. we’ve gotten a lot of sun, ingested a lot of salt water, hottubbed, eaten rugalach, missed our dearly beloveds from whom we’re removed, and watched movies. what else could you ask of a vacation?
last note: i dreamt last nite about my berkeley-bound boy. it was a dream-that-knew-it-was-a-dream: he came to visit at the beginning and hugged me goodbye at the end. but i nearly woke up in tears. (hi, bunny, if you’re reading this. i’ll give a call back at thouse.)
to the rest of you: adios, and i’ll see you soon. make sure you return in one piece.