Ah summer. A six-letter word that has the power to make children and adults squeamish with anticipation. It makes you think of vacation, sand and water; Bonfires and parties, shopping trips and sleep overs; BBQs and birthdays (mine is August 30th, thank you very much - holler to summer birthdays!) You work through an entire school year so that you can relax for 3 months once summer finally arrives. Well here it is. Summer is here!!!
To this day, I don't fully understand how parents/adults handle summer. Because to me, once you graduate college the whole idea of summer being a 3 month vacation goes bye-bye. This is one of the scariest realities of becoming an adult that I can think of. Forget children and job security, or making mortgage payments, or doing your taxes. No, losing summer is the worst adult "side effect" that I can think of. It honestly makes me want to cry and never grow up. I never understood why my dad would still go to work on a Tuesday in July, or why my mom couldn't just come spend the day at the beach with me. Summer vacation is kind of a fake-out. In school they teach you (literally) skills for life. You prepare for your future career and for the life you'll live once school is over. But they only teach you this stuff 9 out of the 12 months. The other 3 you spend doing all the childish activities you wish. But once you graduate and you have your diploma and you get that fabulous job at a fortune 500 company, summer will be just another season in the work-calendar year. How gross is that???
"Work" is a nasty thing. "I have to work" is probably the lamest expression known to man. Everyone has to work, I know. But when its a hot day in June and your friends have spent the entire day at the pool while you've been stuck inside working retail -- its a nauseating reality. And its so ironic! You make this money so that you can spend it on fun things, or so that you can save it for fun or important things down the road, and yet, while you're busy making the cash for the future fun things, you miss out on current fun things. *sigh*
I was determined to be in some musical this summer - determined. *Because apparently, the Us theatre department is just too good for that type of "culinary theatrical experience"* whatever. So I found a production that I thought looked good and was all set to audition. But then I got a really well-paying job that would interfere with most rehearsals....and so I chose the job (and the money) over the theatre. WA WAAAAA I felt like a total war criminal. Choosing money over your passion?! Who are you? Well I'm a poor college student who really wants to study abroad. Sooo that's that. No summer musicals for Catherine :( And once again money wins.
But for the time being, I am having the most fabulous time doing nothing. Watching movies and eating candy and laying outside are some of my favorite ways to spend the days. Until my job starts - (which is tomorrow) acting like a complete lazy ass is the only and best way to do summer.
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