Blabble

summer 2011, wooo party!!! (haha jk, has it ever been?) this summer has really put my patience to test. times when I sat there, thinking about everything, and also nothing at all. I've been "productive", at least in ma's eyes. started with 6 weeks of summer school. in no way did I think that the class would top ss11 with the girls whom I grew so close to (and also lost touch with). I went into the course thinking (hoping!!) that it would be interesting, considering I've always enjoyed history. I came out of the class with high marks but other than that, very little of anything else. Every day consisted of reading out of the textbook word-for-word, and to say the least, the class was far from interesting. I've improved (not a great deal, but to a moderate extent) my sat score. still, i could argue why a balance would've increased my efficiency. wake up at 9, breakfast while looking over vocab for the day, open Barron's study guide, lunch, more Barron's, move downstairs to study, hide novel in between thick pages of Barron's, wait for ma to go upstairs, begin where I left off in novel, another 3 hours of "studying", dinner, out for run, shower, mixture of listening to my dad's day/attempting to read Frankenstein/MSN, and then sleep. Repeat. with minimal changes (if any at all). This. complete with irritable parents over business matters and extended family problems, I think back to these weeks and wonder what the heck has kept me sane. of course there are those little moments too. like the discovery of how good blueberry jam tastes with waffles (i could live on that forevs) or the times when i read your msgs and you'd attempt to earn your "spot" and make things light and amusing for me. to my whs friends: while it may seem like I've been making excuses about not being able to go out, I'm not. here's to hoping that after sat/college apps, adventures will be made but until then, you guys will only see me during school times. so what did I "accomplish" this summer? I've possibly gotten better at identifying misused modifiers or choosing parallel sentences. and I suppose my vocab has increased to close to 1000 new words. put into a greater prospective, my issues are close to trivial. nevertheless, these past months will not be something I'd like to repeat. Ever. I can very well choose to blame it on moving here, cus frankly I wouldn't have to take the SAT (3 letters I've come to deeply loathe) but blaming can only do so much - nothing at all would change the current situation. and anyway, it can't always be rainbows and butterflies.