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I GO BACK TO HOUSTON IN EXACTLY TWO WEEKS!!!!!!!! *flails*
i don't think i'm ready for that, but at the same time, i can hardly wait. i feel so conflicted! anyway, i have lots to do before i go, and i don't want to actually do any of it. *sighs* well, two weeks means i don't really have to start today. so that's alright. i just can't believe the summer went by so fast.
did you know we had 50 consecutive days of rain in austin? it rained every day of july except for the 31st, which was the first day of complete sunshine. and now august is hitting with a vengeance. i think the weather is making up for the fact that it gave us such a huge break from the heat. now we're getting the real, genuine summer weather that we've been lacking- all that rain kept the temperature below 95F. (and someone somewhere was having a horrible drought.)
this summer has been so crazy. i'm gonna miss it. *pouts* i had a great conversation with my cousin kyle last night. he's my favorite cousin on my mom's side, and my favorite male cousin period; nz holds her respective titles on the opposite side. he starts college this fall, so we had a long discussion about the ups and downs, how close he is to home and his girlfriend, what classes he's taking and what he wants to major in. and i advised him about regressing to a kindergarten mentality and taking frequent naps. it was awesome. i didn't get to see any of my cousins this summer, which is a first for pretty much my whole life. i've gone up to wisconsin every summer since i was one, and this is the first summer i didn't go. i still have lindsay's much-belated birthday gift on my bedroom floor. anyway, lindsay and kyle both start college, and it's making me really nostalgic for high school all over again. and i had a big long conversation with the schattes before they left for minnesota, which made me remember all the things i loved about middle school and high school that you lose in a college environment- mass lunch hour; having the same 20 kids in all your classes; enforced electives, like choir, that i can't afford to take in college; living separately from your friends, which makes sleepovers and hanging out in their rooms both more difficult and more dear and special; after-school clubs; popularity and stuco politics (which i don't miss, per se, but do feel sort of reminiscent about); knowing my professors by first names and nicknames and being able to hang out in their classrooms during off-periods; off-periods where i couldn't leave school, and instead hung out with groups of friends and made so many amazing memories; school trips; killing myself studying for tests even though i could probably have passed without ever touching the books; being unpopular and friendless at times, and not really noticing; having friends who demanded my presence at sleep-overs and refused to let me bring a book.
life is awesome. it's times like these that i might wish for it to go on forever.
i don't think i'm ready for that, but at the same time, i can hardly wait. i feel so conflicted! anyway, i have lots to do before i go, and i don't want to actually do any of it. *sighs* well, two weeks means i don't really have to start today. so that's alright. i just can't believe the summer went by so fast.
did you know we had 50 consecutive days of rain in austin? it rained every day of july except for the 31st, which was the first day of complete sunshine. and now august is hitting with a vengeance. i think the weather is making up for the fact that it gave us such a huge break from the heat. now we're getting the real, genuine summer weather that we've been lacking- all that rain kept the temperature below 95F. (and someone somewhere was having a horrible drought.)
this summer has been so crazy. i'm gonna miss it. *pouts* i had a great conversation with my cousin kyle last night. he's my favorite cousin on my mom's side, and my favorite male cousin period; nz holds her respective titles on the opposite side. he starts college this fall, so we had a long discussion about the ups and downs, how close he is to home and his girlfriend, what classes he's taking and what he wants to major in. and i advised him about regressing to a kindergarten mentality and taking frequent naps. it was awesome. i didn't get to see any of my cousins this summer, which is a first for pretty much my whole life. i've gone up to wisconsin every summer since i was one, and this is the first summer i didn't go. i still have lindsay's much-belated birthday gift on my bedroom floor. anyway, lindsay and kyle both start college, and it's making me really nostalgic for high school all over again. and i had a big long conversation with the schattes before they left for minnesota, which made me remember all the things i loved about middle school and high school that you lose in a college environment- mass lunch hour; having the same 20 kids in all your classes; enforced electives, like choir, that i can't afford to take in college; living separately from your friends, which makes sleepovers and hanging out in their rooms both more difficult and more dear and special; after-school clubs; popularity and stuco politics (which i don't miss, per se, but do feel sort of reminiscent about); knowing my professors by first names and nicknames and being able to hang out in their classrooms during off-periods; off-periods where i couldn't leave school, and instead hung out with groups of friends and made so many amazing memories; school trips; killing myself studying for tests even though i could probably have passed without ever touching the books; being unpopular and friendless at times, and not really noticing; having friends who demanded my presence at sleep-overs and refused to let me bring a book.
life is awesome. it's times like these that i might wish for it to go on forever.
