"Vacation"

This post is coming to you from Pie-Slingers, my favorite pizza place in Chickamauga, GA. According to their sign, they were voted Walker County's best pizza place, but the only competition I've seen is a take-out pizza/video rental combo (and half of their inventory is VHS). But still, Pie-Slingers is very good. I am in Georgia to visit my family, which is great. I'm driving 1,000 miles in less than a week, which is not great.

I haven't talked about camp very much, and it isn't because I have nothing to say. I have so much to say and so little free time, I never think about writing it all down. The first two weeks were crazy. I bought seven times as much pepperoni as we needed, I was hit in the face several times (even by a shoe once), and I've heard so many hilarious things from kids.

I'll tell you one of my favorite hilarious things. It happened last year, but Matt, the 6 year old camper involved, is still coming and he's still hilarious. Last year, Matt had a joke to tell me, but he couldn't tell me where we were; we had to walk all the way to the fire-pit, on the other side of the playground/field. When the group of staff and kids got there, we were all waiting silently, and Matt says, "Talking about water, I meeeeeed water!" and he cracked up. I should have just laughed, but I wanted to know what he said. Turned out, he didn't mean to say need or any other logical word. A while later, he had another joke, which was the exact same as the first one, but with Joe instead of water. He repeated this at least four times that day, and I still have no idea what it means.

I'm disappointed, because that doesn't seem funny at all written out, but I promise, it was. That's why I don't write about everything that happens, or even tell people about them. The things that go down at COCUSA are so unique to camp that they can't be explained to anyone outside of camp.

I missed work today, and I'll miss tomorrow and Wednesday. It's killing me. I love being here, but during the summer I only want to be working. It's exhausting, and it lasts from 7 to 5 or 5:30 every day, but I can't imagine doing anything else.