Friday, June 24, 2005
Long Summer Days
At first I was really disappointed when I didn't get any of the six jobs I applied to this summer. I quickly realized, though, that perhaps as the saying going, "everything happens for a reason." As much as I wanted to do something meaningful this summer and earn a couple bucks to finance my edumacation, perhaps something or someone was keeping me in check for a reason.
I need my rest. I've been hollering and bruhahaing about it for the past couple years, and so, being young 'n unemployed, this summer will be my summer of rest. Finally it's recharge and rejuvination time in ernest! I'm not even talking about a one week break to rest. This is the real deal, y'all!
Aside from years of sleep deprivation, this is my backlog and what I still need to rest up from.
Senior year in high school: SATs, ACTs, college applications, too many classes, too many rejection letters.
Freshman year in college: adjusting to a new environment where I knew absolutely nobody, living independently for the first time, making new friends, taking too many classes first semester and way too many classes second semester, holding my first serious job, and coming to terms with my 15 minutes of fame.
This past year: still taking way too many classes, juggling two jobs, resting up from my years of environmental volunteer work and coming to terms with my big decision to stop it in February.
So what have I been doing with my time on these long summer days? I've been enjoying long restful nights of sleep. I've been catching up on some TV since I don't lay eyes on one during the school year. I planted a garden with my mom, and I've been zealously checking up on it and tending to it several times a day. I've been rollerblading, reading, interneting, listening to lots of music, catching up with a few old friends around town and with others by phone, memorizing the words to that hot new Mariah Carey ballad LOL, and flexing my vocal chords when no one else is around.
Blogworld, I'm still here. I'm just trying out a different approach.
I need my rest. I've been hollering and bruhahaing about it for the past couple years, and so, being young 'n unemployed, this summer will be my summer of rest. Finally it's recharge and rejuvination time in ernest! I'm not even talking about a one week break to rest. This is the real deal, y'all!
Aside from years of sleep deprivation, this is my backlog and what I still need to rest up from.
Senior year in high school: SATs, ACTs, college applications, too many classes, too many rejection letters.
Freshman year in college: adjusting to a new environment where I knew absolutely nobody, living independently for the first time, making new friends, taking too many classes first semester and way too many classes second semester, holding my first serious job, and coming to terms with my 15 minutes of fame.
This past year: still taking way too many classes, juggling two jobs, resting up from my years of environmental volunteer work and coming to terms with my big decision to stop it in February.
So what have I been doing with my time on these long summer days? I've been enjoying long restful nights of sleep. I've been catching up on some TV since I don't lay eyes on one during the school year. I planted a garden with my mom, and I've been zealously checking up on it and tending to it several times a day. I've been rollerblading, reading, interneting, listening to lots of music, catching up with a few old friends around town and with others by phone, memorizing the words to that hot new Mariah Carey ballad LOL, and flexing my vocal chords when no one else is around.
Blogworld, I'm still here. I'm just trying out a different approach.
