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still on the cape and having quite the time.  yesterday lank and mama and i tackled The Breakwater in Provincetown which was amile long rock jetty stretching out across the bay.  This involved lots of jumps and landings and scrambles and leaps and crawls, and MY MOM HANDLED IT ALL!  for those of you who don't know, my mom has Mysthenia Gravis which is a really sucky neuro-muscular disease.  her immune system basically gets over-active and tries to destroy her muscles.  When i was little she was sick frequently, like to the point she had to go to the hospital and be in a wheelchair or on a ventilator.  Well thank g-d treatment has improved and with the new experimental meds she's on have given me a new physically fit mama!!  she came to cape cod last summer for a conference and couldn't walk more than three hundred feet WITH a walker.  Now she was able to do this physically challenging rock wall with me and not slow me down at all. 

When we got to the other side of rock jetty my brother decided we should go on over to the beach on the other side of these dunes.  he was like, it's right over this hill guys come on, and he ran off.  my mom and i slogged through the deep sand to get to the beach, surprised by a new hill after each dune that crested.  we finally got there and i looked out over the ocean and i saw huge black storm cloud.  oh geez.  so my mom took a quick dip in the ocean to cool off and we headed back just as the rain started.  we had the mile of big rocks to cross in front of us, and now they were wet rocks and we were being pelted by rain. then the thunder started and mom told us to climb down into the rocks.  when that stopped we resumed our climb and jump and leap and crawl and walk and finally made it, just as the rain stopped.  it was quite a harrowing adventure and i was so proud of my mama :)

Today I ran FIVE MILES!!! I am totally amazed I didn't realize it was that far until I googled it when i got back here.  that's pretty fricken sweet.  I also worked on the book.  My mom is taking a nap and after that I think we should be headed to a beach for some late afternoon/evening swimming.  and i wanna get frozen yogurt.  my (2nd eldest) sister laura and her bf dave are here too which is nice :)

we are staying at cottage grove in eastham and i recommend it.  i like it here.

cape cod

vacationing with the momster and my brother lank.  good trip so far except my mama's sick. we are staying in a cute little cabin which totally reminds of the cottage i lived in with MR. PRVRT.  Is a good remembrance of a mostly good time.

today lank and i went bike riding from here (Eastham) to Marconi Beach which is kind of very very gorgeous.  We rented bikes from the Orleans bike shop biked about 30 kilometers today and swam in the ocean.  Now I am going to do some work on my book.

blogging on da bus!

give some a slight tummyache... but it is awful neat and FUN.  actually the tummyache might be the result of the dirty-water dog i scarfed from the stand as i baked in line for the MEGABUS.  It left fifteen minutes late but I don't care, I'm always late, as long as it doesn't come early then it is the bus for me.

It was more than ten dollars cheaper than greyhound.  and it beats the heck out of the chinatown bus b/c i don't have to go down to chinatown, the workers speak better english and are marginally less gruff, and there is free wifi!  plus i've had one chinatown bus trip where the heat didn't work in January and I had to put on all the clothes I had in my luggage and I was still freezing, and another chinatown bus trip where the exhaust from the engine was somehow coming into the bus and people were getting headaches and barfing so i popped out the emergency hatch on the ceiling because the bus driver WOULD NOT stop and we needed oxygen.  That made him stop.

so, IMHO, megabus gets thumbs up and chinatown bus gets thumbs down except for mega short trips like to philly.

I am super-tired.  i couldn't sleep in the death heat last night and i don't have money to run the A.C.   sucks.  but that's what it is.  also i was nervous because i always get nervous before any trip, stupid but true.  I am going to Cape Cod with my mama :)  never been there and i've never been on  with my mama before  it will be mostly just she and i, but my brother kevin will be around too which is great because he wants to go biking, hiking, swimming, running and kayaking with me.

my headphones died and i had to pay $10 for a crap pair of "colby" headphones in Penn Station.  What a gyp.  they are like $2 at the discount store.  highway robbery!   oh well at least they work.  sort of

ok i'm gonna go take a nap b/c this air conditioning is the bee knees!

ps. i really like this ring:

 (by violet darkling)

i want it!

UPDATE I WOKE UP FREEZING and had to put on all the clothes and towels so i wouldn't die of hypothermia.  geez.  this is very silly.  i'm almost to albany now.  my papa is gonna pick me up.