And so, gentle reader, you may be thinking, "Rachel has abandoned us! Where has she gone? No new posts!"

   Fear not, my friends. I am only on vacation. Shooting big game in Africa, using my trusty blunderbuss. Presently I am covered in blood and gristle, typing away under a billabong tree, or whatever it is that grows down here. I have heard the roar of lions and not been afraid. I have stared in the face of a rhino and not flinched. I have riddden on the backs of a herd of elephants and delivered the trumpeting stampede call myself. My guide, Kwofe, is beyond impressed and calls me a natural in the wild. He calls me other things too, but they are muttered under his breath and I can't understand them. I know he is enamored of me.

   But know, gentle readers, I think of you always. As I adjust my khaki riding suit and dust off my authentic field hat from J. Crew, I understand that should this day be my last, I will have lived proudly and well. I am off now to puchase a gun-u-ine antelope tooth necklace from one of the natives and then after that, I'm taking Kwofe to a real movie theater to see Transformers 3! He's never been to see an action movie on the big screen (how quaint!) and just says silly things like "That movie will be crap. I prefer the work of Werner Herzog." Must be some native guy.

  Till next time, gentle readers!