Summertime

What can I say--I'm neglectful. It's better that it's my blog that I ignore for five weeks and not a dog or my bills. Anywho, I'm already off topic.

Summer has been good and restful for the most part. I flew in to Tucson to see brother Mike and his family. I think everything hit me at once there. The dryness, the dehydration, the beef, the jet-lag, the fatigue of the end of the school year. It put me down for a few days. Luckily my only responsibilities for the week were to read comic books, play with my niece, and sleep. It was a good week.

Mike and I then flew to Chicago where the rest of the clan met up at Becky's and we had mom's recipe chicken and dumplings and some good ol' peach custard pie. The remainder of my time has been spent lounging around the old stomping grounds, meeting up with old friends (went to my first tractor pull), and having to deal with a week's worth of my goddaughter's temper tantrums. One really should not ask for more.

Dad and I have since taken a trip out to North Carolina to see some more family before he and I head off towards Washington DC to go to the Boy Scout Jamboree. Dad is working the air rifles and I am working as international hosting. I'm not entirely sure as to what all my job will entail but I will find out soon enough when dad and I get there in a few hours. So while my colleagues are gathering again for another fun filled staff retreat before school starts I get to waltz around in the Virginia summer heat in a scout uniform making sure that the international kids behave themselves (which from past personal experience--they won't). I'll be back in India soon enough though. My flight leaves the day after I leave the jamboree and the day after I get back I get to teach! Oh please let jet-lag be merciful as I come back.

I should have internet access when I am at the jamboree so hopefully I will get around to putting up a few updates. Of course I'm sure that there are a few people who are thinking NERD! But seriously, when you can get these is the place really that bad?