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my dear dear dear dear dear friends

how i've missed you all! as you may or may not have known, i've spent the past week on family vacation on a cruise through the caribbean. despite the ridiculous and wasteful gluttony of it all, i actually had an awesome time. though, i missed all of you so much

coming back to the blog and seeing all the updates from people's lives that were waiting for me though = literally the biggest smile i've made in a week (though, i haven't seen laura yet, so competition may be in the making...). a few notes on that:

-sam: you live!! the package was awesome, by the by
-becky: theater?! awesome
-michael: see comment on journal (and, i'm not ashamed to add, i was a D&D kid at one point)
-cata: you made me cry. i'm so glad the wedding went so well. see you monday :)
-budzyna: what? no post. boo. good thing you made 1000 comments
-ali: your city life never ceases to amaze and entertain
-kevin: miss you, hope italian school is going well
-jessie: swordswomen barbie? ten points

ps. i got a note from ben, he's alive. and i had a million other emails, but that's another story

and some highlights on the trip:

-got burnt, clearly (despite extraordinary amounts of sunscreen...so there budzy)
-swam with dolphins, tres cool
-actually got kissed because of a certain tshirt i received
-scuba diving in a coral reef (so neat)
-beaching
-reading a shit ton
-hearing a million languages and thinking of every single one of you
-desperately wanting to lindy to all the music
-playing bingo and losing miserably
-sneaking into a casino and playing slots
-missing middkids
-missing middkids
-missing middkids

if that's not clear enough, i missed you guys. a lot. i heard everything from arabic to italian to spanish to portuguese to english to seeing ASL and everything in between, which, obviously made me miss all of you. and then there was the dancing - oh the dancing! if only you all were there, we would have had quite the party. and the eating was oddly reminiscent of proctor. god i miss that place. basically, i spent the majority of the cruise missing all you kids.

basically, i love you all. be in my life more. i'm sorry i suck at phone calls. i will do my best to call you all and stay in touch more. miss you!