goodbye sweet summer.

I have one weekend before school starts up again for the fall. Half of me does NOT want to go back... I am apprehensive about being "homeless" for a few weeks and about being stuck in the same class room with the same people for about 7 hours each day. I'm ready to be packing and getting ready to leave for Vienna. Even though there is SO much to do before I leave.

I was talking with my good friend Nick the other day about how this summer may possibly be the last summer with all of us together. I feel like something is going to change drastically next year that we won't be able to stop. We have apartments, we're going abroad, we're moving to Chicago or Montana, and I feel like I'm already grasping at ideas to keep us together next summer (and in fact I already have the parentals permission. Woo!). There is just this part of me though that knows that things won't ever be the same. It won't be as easy to get everyone together for a random laser tag night or movie night anymore. But maybe I'm being pessimistic. Though the other day I read some quote that said "It's great to be pessimistic, you are either proven right, or delightfully surprised." :) I kinda like that.

But I hope that I can hold on tightly to my high school friends as well as my college ones, because they changed my life as much as the new ones have. You know that old Girl Scout song, "Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the others gold." ;) Although I never got the point of tying shiny elements into a song... This summer has actually been better in some respects than last summer. I feel like I balanced everything really well. Boy time, friend time (then broken down into college and high school friends), family time, and work time. I've been on wonderful trips, read so many books, and have had so many amazing nights with friends. I can't help but be thankful for how splendiforous this summer has been!

I am going to savor this weekend. Though I'm not sure it will be that tasty, besides tonight. The rest of it will be packing and doing all sorts of last minute things.

I like college, and I love my friends, but I'm really not ready for classes. Boooooo. ;)

VIENNA COUNTDOWN: 19 days!!!

My parents bought me a new camera for my birthday. WOOOOO :)

so wonderful :) though I don't have it yet. Best Buy should be shipping it today. And I hope I get it tomorrow.

I also need to start a list of books I'm taking, and I would like other suggestions as well :)

-Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

-Atonement

-(maybe) Wuthering Heights

-(and maybe) The Time Travelers Wife (if my mother lets me borrow it for the fall)

And I think that's all I have so far, but I may be missing something I got.

Anymore suggestions?

I feel like Vienna by Billy Joel has come into my life in full force. It seems like everyone is saying that to me, sending me bumper stickers with it, singing it, talking about how it changed their lives, or how it completely fits them more than any other song ever... I will in fact probably sing it on the plane non stop so much that it will get instantly cliche' for everyone on that trip. So I apologize in advance. But I feel like it's been put in my face for a reason. Perhaps I'm just picking up on Vienna in conversation more than usual these days. :)

As much as I really don't like Taylor Swift, her lyrics are indeed catchy, and this guy did Love Story from Romeo's perspective, and it is about the sweetest thing ever. The lyrics are WAY cuter than anything "tswift" could ever put out. So thanks random asian dude. :)

Guess that's all for today dear readers :) have a merry weekend.

OOOO Ok thanks to mentalfloss I now know what I want to do the next few summers ;)

Update:12:26

I had to work for Martha upstairs today and seriously the entire time I spent looking at interesting pictures from the last 7 days on flickr. I'm so obsessed it's, well it's just bad. So please future self/aura/fate/whatever may I PLEASE be a photographer?!?