Swallowed By The Sea

I'm in North Carolina on vacation. It's nice. There is the sea, and family, and those things are nice.

There's much we haven't spoken of. This is not the place. But it's there, hanging over our heads. And no amount of explaining explains justly, because sometimes there is no justice in things.

I'm looking out at the sea, the endless sea, and I'm amazed at how far it goes. Exactly the same as a hundred thousand years ago, still vast and constantly in motion. Still lapping at our feet, trying to swallow us. Untamed and restless, and I feel lost in the stretch to the horizon. The clouds billow overhead, and they show the different colors of the sun's light. And at night, the moon rises slowly out of the water, bigger than life and yellow, as if it's trapped in an antique painting, slivers of cloud cutting across it. And there's sand beneath my feet, and for a moment I feel like I'm on solid ground.

Beyond our pale bodies, there's no interruption to the ripples of the sea. They only fade when my eyes fail me. There's something comforting there. As if we're looking at something more, the last vestiges of a world we can never understand, hidden deep beneath the white caps. And my eyes fill with water if I look too hard.

There is peace in this place, even if there is not peace where we are right now.

And the Deathly Hallows

I just finished Harry Potter. Finally. Finally.

The Mariner's Revenge

I got to see a free concert at Millennium Park last night. The Decemberists along with the Grant Park Orchestra! Aww yeah. It was nice. I got there late and so didn't have a good view behind the thousands of others ahead of me, but they were still fun. Afterwards it began to rain and my friends and I decided to go and play in Crown Fountain, which consists of two small towers that pour water down over their sides while also displaying people's faces. It's a lot of fun even though the faces are slightly jarring. Look.


It was tons of fun. Then it started raining and then we realized we were really cold. And soaking wet. But what fun.

Eric, and anyone who loves Civilization games, you should read this article about the history of the game.

I'll see all you peeps later. Harry Potter comes out this weekend and I don't think I'll have time for lesser things. But after the dust settles we can discuss.

In Case You Missed It

This story is at first hilarious and then kind of terrible and sad. It's really one of those WTF moments. Like, where did the peacock come from?

Indeed. I am finishing The Historian finally. I should be done with it by the end of the day if I stay on track. But I just took an unplanned nap on the couch and woke up caked in sweat, so things don't always go according to plan.

Tonight we're hitting up the Taste, which is the Taste of Chicago, which is "here's a lot of different food from all around the city, please stuff your faces." Very exciting.