In keeping with the title of this blog, I will periodically post some of the reasons I miss Mississippi, pretty much based on whatever is making me miss home on that particular day. Today, I miss my little sisters. My sister Hannah posted on my blog for the first time (Welcome, Hannah!) and left me a link to her blog site. And it was so much like a Web site I might have made that it was scary. Hannah, I think, is a lot like me when I was 17 but much, much cooler. My youngest sister, Audrey makes me laugh because she's so direct and so funny. She's a little like me, but again, cooler, and with more confidence and better hair. Both of my sisters are much better-looking than I was at their age, and as far as I can tell they never went through an awkward phase in their early teenage years. This is totally unfair, since my awkward early teenage phase lasted for about five years and consisted of being painfully thin, having stringy hair, braces, glasses, and a serious lack of physical coordination. I still don't have any physical coordination! So although I have many reasons to resent them for stealing all the good stuff from the gene pool, I love my sisters and I wish I saw them more. Here's to going home in two weeks.