Atlantic Sunrise and Resolution.

I woke up relatively early this morning to take in a sunrise over the Atlantic. I was admittedly a little bit late, but thanks to some cloud cover out on the horizon I was able to see the first peek of the pink sun.

Again we took to the beach for another day. Sorry, I'm a huge nerd and I have to quote Thoreau whenever I'm near a beach. It's just beautiful. There were quite a few jellyfish this morning when we were out, which makes things more exciting and also makes people-watching fun. Yesterday there was this little girl getting dangerously close to a jelly, so I told her to watch out and she proceeded to scream and run out of the ocean. I hope she's not scarred. Adrian also found a very large beach flea, but thankfully no sea roaches.

Kure Beach is such a quaint, perfect little beach town. People ride bikes, people have kittens and puppies running around their yards, people walk around half-dressed and covered in sand. It's all laid-back, as it should be.

Jonathan returned to the beach after spending a few days back in Durham interviewing for jobs. We're glad to have him back. And we're particularly thankful that he had three interviews in the first three days of this week. One has already said no (we didn't like them anyway - I promise I'm not rationalizing), one seems rather ambivalent and also asked for his GPA (to everyone who claims your college GPA doesn't matter - not true!), and the final potential employer sounds amazing and tempts me to get my hopes up very high and plot out our ten-year life plan.

In news related to my New Year's Resolution, I have been reading again after quite the lull. I blame the laptop and its plethora of entertainment options for my lack of reading; but I'm glad to be back in the books. This week I've started and finished Cheer! and The Year of Living Biblically. I've also started And Sometimes Why. I grabbed these three books during a last-minute library run before we headed to the beach, and I'd only heard of one of them (Year of Living Biblically). Brief synopsis: a guy tries to follow teh bible, literally, for a year. That's definitely going to be one of my favorites from the year. It also makes me want to read A.J. Jacobs's other book - The Know-It-All. So, there you are. I'll consolidate my list and post a recap sometime when I'm not at the beach and that doesn't seem vaguely like work.