I've been everywhere, man.

Crazy amount of stuff that has happened in the last two days

I drove from East Lansing to Jackson to West Bloomfield to Ann Arbor to Jackson to Augusta and then back to Jackson again

and I found out that, yes, you can get a sunburn just from driving. My left arm is going to be considerably tanner than the other one...which is certainly saying something because I do have pasty, pasty skin. Any tan is going to make the rest of me look like a ghost.

I haven't seen this many firework displays in a while. There were the illegal ones at Sean's and then an hour-long show on Gull Lake, as well as all the little displays scattered all around Scotch and Gull Lake. Kinda intense

Also, more mosquito bites on my body than I think is entirely healthy.

Sean's was fun and tiring. I didn't drink anything so I wasn't trashed enough to sleep on the floor, so I stayed up all night long. It was nice around 6am when the sun was rising over the lake, and I had a really nice talk with Ian Cooley after that.

I met a girl named Tori. Her uncle is Adam Baldwin. Not her second cousin twice removed...not some distant uncle of an uncle of a grandfather cow somewhere or any other odd connection. He's her father's brother. Needless to say, I was quite shocked and happy. She had pictures on her phone of him at dinner a few weeks ago.

I told you that to tell you this story: Clinton was hungry and as everyone was moving inside because Sean was going to smoke the lawn and/or it was getting too loud, I suggested we go get food. The legendary John Walsh heard that we were going to go get food and slapped $40 into my hand and told me to use all of it. Now, it's 2 in the morning and we're guessing that not a damn thing is going to be open except McDonalds.

We were right

So, there we are - me, Clinton, and Tori - having driven around a good portion of West Bloomfield looking for ANYTHING except a McDonalds. No luck.

We pull up

We three order what we want

Clinton then leans over and says, "We want 35 McDoubles"

Silence

Then, this poor intercom girls says, "Are you sure you want to do that?"

Turns out this poor girl and two other McDonalds employees were the only ones there and she said that she had been getting orders like that all night long. Needless to say, she was a stressed out SOB

So we gave them an under-the-table-tip for their trouble. Intercom Girl said that she was going to quit her job but we were so nice that she had more faith in humanity and decided against it

In hindsight, perhaps we shouldn't have given her a tip. She might have quit her job and actually found a place that schedules smartly and does leave 3 people alone to make 40 burgers

Before heading on to Emily's house, I stopped at Pizza Hut. I sat alone for about 10 minutes before this nice old man came by and asked if he could sit with me. He said that his wife had died last year and he wasn't quite used to eating alone yet. We had a great conversation about her (more him telling stories, but who's keeping track?). And to top it all off, apparently, Pizza Hut was "out of smalls" so, they gave me a large pizza for a small pizza price. Overall, a great decision

Then, on to Emily's house in Augusta and a bunch of us took a speed boat out on the lake. We certainly exceeded the amount of people that were supposed to be on that boat, but we're irresponsible teenagers - we do that. There were many fireworks to be had, two bonfires, a crap ton of cigarettes and then I crashed on Emily's couch

Mr. Nott made me a really great omelet

And now I'm home

enjoying the central air

My birthday is coming up.

meh

that is all