Y’All Come Back Now Yah Hear!!

The vacation in Mississippi was nice. It was a wonderful 10 day break away from the job, home, and such. It was even nice to spend a few days with the Mom and step-dad. I could have done without the alien belly that would flare up to ruin inclinations of partying or fencing. The trip to New Orleans involved multiple doses of Immodium AD during the drive there to thwart the random alien attacks. I only wish I had taken that approach earlier in the week to have been able to have more fun rather than sit about the camp like a feeble old person. Granted, it was spent with Adam and that was nice. Sitting around a portable fire pit and chatting it up with friends old and new.

It seemed there was definitely a plague going about the Gulf Wars encampment. Folks from Northshield were hit with it especially it seemed. Adam was coughing it up all week, partly due to not going to the doctor for 3 weeks prior to GW. The bright side, we had lots o’ quality time together and I don’t think I was bitchy most of the week.

New Orleans was interesting in a pedestrian sense. You could walk everywhere and see lots of neat things that Katrina hadn’t wiped out, like Bourbon Street. The more pathetic aspect of New Orleans was the fact that the outskirts of the city, the burbs surrounding the area, they looked like downtown Baghdad after a nice fire bombing. Looted to high heavens, Wal-Mart was an empty pathetic boarded up shell. Housing was still in shambles, places with no roofs, collapsed, dilapidated, and very disheartening to see. Especially when you see all the new construction going up all over the place, clearly none of the poor African American population can’t and could never afford to rent or own.

I was amazed at the concentration of African American folks. It was scary thick in some areas. Like, the only Caucasians I saw roaming about were either tourists feeling about as secure as I did or they were cops, dealers, or natives of the area that just didn’t give a shit anymore. Definitely saw a unusual amount of mental outpatients running amuck too. Go figure. Otherwise, Nawlins was architecturally interesting and I had some of the best shrimp ever! I highly doubt that it would be an appealing place to go to for Mardi Gras for me though. If I want to party like a rock star, I’ll just go to Pennsic and join an amoeba of wandering drunks instead or find a Northshield party to attend. =)

Tammolly~ Making a post because it’s been a while and needed to babble.

...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…