What I Did On My Summer Vacation
By Lorrie Callison
On my summer vacation, I did not post to my blog. I am only posting a place holder right now as I am still unpacking and attempting to locate such things as the iphone plug in, the dorky Clark Griswold-ish stick figures I bought for the van, & deal constructively with my horror that school is starting on AUGUST 18, 2011.
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OBLIGATORY RANT ABOUT HOW IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS WE ALL STARTED SCHOOL THE DAY AFTER LABOR DAY AND T'AINT FITTIN' TO START SCHOOL IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER WHEN THE CLASSROOMS ARE BROILING HOT ALTHOUGH DOWN HEAH WE HAVE AIR CONDITIONING THANK YOU JESUS...
BUT SUMMA THEM DARNYANKEES HAVE TO SUFFER THROUGH WEEKS OF HEAT WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONING AND ONE TEACHER WAS TOLD BY HER PRINCIPAL TO "BUY A FAN" (IMPLYING VERY STRONGLY THAT SHE WAS NOT #winning AND DID NOT HAVE #tigerblood and by the way #you-have-to-pay-for-it BUT THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE TEACHERS ARE OVERPAID LEECHES ON BURDENED TAXPAYERS AND DESERVE A CUT TO THEIR ENORMOUS SALARIES #liar-liar-pants-on-fire).
We went to Folly Beach and stayed in the same condo as last year. I was thinking about going elsewhere, but once again Madeleine unwittingly tipped the scales. She got to go to China with us to pick up Meredith against ALL advice because my mom was babysitting her a month before our trip and M went into the dirty clothes hamper and smelled Roger's t-shirt saying I miss mommy and daddy so much.
This time she wrote an assigned school essay on "The Most Wonderful Thing That Ever Happened To You" or something like that and did and wrote a beautiful poem that made me get on www.vrbo.com (Vacation Rentals By Owner-awesome--if you want to rent property to others or rent a vacation for yourself that cannot be beaten for prices and no I am not being compensated in any way for recommending them)
More later. Soon I hope to read Dorethea Benton Frank's new book called simply Folly Beach. Dorethea and I are good friends, which means that I am a pathological liar and I've commented a few times on her facebook page. Snort.
Bye y'all. Enjoy those last few precious weeks of blisteringly hot heat before the grind of school, homework, ballet, violin, soccer, football, school clubs, etc. begins.
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