We shed what was left of our summer skin...
I made it home. It's so weird here. As if the whole adjustment of moving to a strange place and leaving behind all that I knew wasn't strange enough, now nothing is how I left it. Our house is basically fine, it just needs a new roof, but the entire Coast is just a mess. I went by where some friends used to live, and there's nothing left except debris. People are living in campers outside the wrecks of their homes. It was so horrible to see, even though I knew what to expect.
I took a lot of pics. I'll try to get those uploaded and posted tomorrow.
I managed to see a lot of people I missed. Some people are changed a lot by what they've been through, understandably. Others haven't changed at all, for better or worse.
To add to the melancholy theme of the weekend, today on the way home from picking up one of my friends, I almost died. My friend was driving, and she's not a very good driver by any means. I look up to find that we're seconds away from hitting a big dump truck head-on. I scream and grab the wheel, jerking it away from the truck, and the car goes swerving off the road, slides off the gravel shoulder and back into the road, where it does a 180 and we end up skidding to a stop against the brush, inches away from crunching into a tree. I don't even know what would've happened if I hadn't seen the truck, if I had jerked the wheel, if we would've hit the tree. It's so scary to think we came that close to at least serious injury. I'm not sure whose fault it was, but the people who had been driving right behind the truck stopped and said it looked like he veered into our lane. We apparently almost hit those people too, when we were spinning out of control. It was close, and I'm glad to still be here.
The rest of the day did bring some actual fun and cheer. I saw Serenity again -- in a mostly full theater this time, hopefully a good sign -- and it was just as amazing the second time. I went over to my friend John's to hang out with more people I hadn't seen in a while.
I never thought I would miss living in Mississippi, but I think I actually do. But it's so different now, it's so ruined, I can't imagine living here anymore. I'm going to be glad to head back to Tallahassee tomorrow and see all my new buddies again.
Till next time.
I took a lot of pics. I'll try to get those uploaded and posted tomorrow.
I managed to see a lot of people I missed. Some people are changed a lot by what they've been through, understandably. Others haven't changed at all, for better or worse.
To add to the melancholy theme of the weekend, today on the way home from picking up one of my friends, I almost died. My friend was driving, and she's not a very good driver by any means. I look up to find that we're seconds away from hitting a big dump truck head-on. I scream and grab the wheel, jerking it away from the truck, and the car goes swerving off the road, slides off the gravel shoulder and back into the road, where it does a 180 and we end up skidding to a stop against the brush, inches away from crunching into a tree. I don't even know what would've happened if I hadn't seen the truck, if I had jerked the wheel, if we would've hit the tree. It's so scary to think we came that close to at least serious injury. I'm not sure whose fault it was, but the people who had been driving right behind the truck stopped and said it looked like he veered into our lane. We apparently almost hit those people too, when we were spinning out of control. It was close, and I'm glad to still be here.
The rest of the day did bring some actual fun and cheer. I saw Serenity again -- in a mostly full theater this time, hopefully a good sign -- and it was just as amazing the second time. I went over to my friend John's to hang out with more people I hadn't seen in a while.
I never thought I would miss living in Mississippi, but I think I actually do. But it's so different now, it's so ruined, I can't imagine living here anymore. I'm going to be glad to head back to Tallahassee tomorrow and see all my new buddies again.
Till next time.