i’m at the beach with laura’s dad and her brothers.  it’s 5 in the afternoon, and they are all asleep, and have all been asleep for 2 hours.  we all got a full night’s sleep…i don’t know what’s going on.  have they all been drugged?  what did they eat that i didn’t?  did they swallow the ocean water? no, why would that make any difference.  what’s going on here?

we’re staying in port aransas.  got here yesterday.  during the 3 hour trip, my air condition decided to stop blowing.  so laura, myself, and her brother all sat in a very very hot car with a little bit of cool air wafting out of the vents.  then we remembered that such things as power windows have been invented and installed on my very own car.  it’s great living in the future.

in the pool last night there was this kid with swimming goggles on.  he was about four, and kept following us around the pool, splashing and flailing wildly.  then he’d leach onto you and start licking your face.  well, no he didn’t lick anyone’s face, but he’d leach onto us for sure.  he followed us into the hot tub and threw his arms around my neck and started pulling on it–my neck.  “where are your parents?” he asked me.  “they’re gone.  do you know why? because they kept choking me with their arms.”  he stopped after that, and then his mother came in.  she was drunk, and the little boy and his brother, about 8, sat in the corner and watched as she made passes at laura’s dad and talked loud and angry.  we decided to leave and she said, “i’ll never hear the end of THIS! you got in so our friends had to leave!” we kind of laughed a little, then she said it again, louder.  “i’ll NEVER HEAR the end of THIS! always PUSHING OUR FRIENDS away!”  poor kids.  they were just begging someone to kidnap them, and now i see why.

i don’t think i have any more to say.