Adventures

I'm back from New Jersey, and I had a great time there as well as in Kansas!

I spent the majority of my time in Topeka with Grandma and my cousin Jena.

We went to the K State campus to see the radio station where my other cousin, James, works.

We also visited this cafe, which was quite lovely, actually.

On the fourth of July, there were many, many festivities in Topeka, including a funny parade and a big fourth of July dinner.

Uncle Sam on a tractor!

Kids on bikes.

Poor donkey.

My grandmother at the fourth of July party.

After I left Topeka, I went to Kansas City to stay with Susie and Chuck, which was so much fun! I was very busy, so I didn't get many photos. I spent a lot of time with David and Ellen, visited Lawrence and Broadway Cafe, and ate at some fantastic vegetarian restaurants.

Here is the amazing garden in Susie and Chuck's front yard.

Also...

I will post Kansas pictures as soon as I return home!

The wonders of the world wide web

Well, hello! And welcome to this blog entry! Do you like my outfit? It's very dramatic. There was a time in my career...

Y'all know the rest, so I won't continue the horrors any longer. I am currently in Kansas, the good ol' midwest, visiting my grandparents. They have dial-up (is that one word? Two? Does it have a hyphen? I don't even know) which is kind of slow, but also refreshing in a funny way. I love new things: books, films, music, culture, electronics -- newfangled tecnology, basically, and as wonderful as that is, I sometimes feel like I equire new internet services and smaller cell phones and computers with more memory, I am adjusting more and more to this new, fast-paced lifestyle. I think when things become more efficient, life goes by faster. I like taking a break from a fast-paced life, even if it's only in a really small way, like waiting for the computer to sing its little song and closing all the overwhelming pop-ups. I know this sounds kind of stupid, but I am not the only one who thinks this, correct?

I'm kind of homesick right now, but for some reason, the computer makes me feel, like, 100% better, which is kind of sad. I'm always homesick the first 2 days or so, and then I feel fine. It's strange. To cure my homesickness, I first wrote a letter, then read Harry Potter 4, and then got on the computer, which took a while, because the internet connection wasn't working, for some reason.

Kansas is pretty flat, just as it's rumoured to be, and I like all the fields and the sky, but there are a lot of cars. I love visiting here, but I don't think I could live someplace where one needs a car to get around. I think it's sad how we've become so dependent on them. Also, for some reason, I feel like going to the beach so much right now. I think I will have to make do with a pool.

In my grandparents' house, there is a clock that sings a little tune every fifteen minutes. My dad once told me that when he was a teenager and he was mad at his parents for some reason, that clock would make him angrier every time it rang. It really annoyed him.

I'm sorry to present you with such a long, boring, and rambling blog entry!