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I'd forgotten how awesome it is to pack a lunch, go to the library in the morning, and stay until late in the afternoon; I did it all the time last summer. I think at least twice I arrived when they opened at eight a.m. and left when they closed at four p.m. Tori and I had a neat lunch (Cherry Coke is the best invention of our generation) in the student center, checked out oodles of books that we'll never read (at least in my case), and annoyed Dan for ages.
I plan to do this, with and without Tori, every weekday that I'm home all summer. There is NO ONE in the library EVER except me and three or four employees. There is a video viewing room and many, many shelves of videos, from The Godfather to documenteries on differences in men and womens' brains. I can never get any work (summer reading for school, SAT studying, etc.) done at home, because of the call of my computer and my bed, but the library computers are so slow and the chairs so uncomfortable that I bet I could be totally motivated there. I might even make it through Being and Nothingness. (Not.)
All this is making me aware of how much this summer is like last summer (minus the misguided experiments with cough medicine). Hanging out at the library every day, going to creative writing camp... the only thing that's different is that this year, instead of cruising with Hunter, Nick, and Holt, I'm bumming rides from Austin and Jon and eventually I'll get my driver's license.
Right now I'm watching Pretty Woman. Earlier I watched Bulworth, a funny/painful account of a Senator (Warren Beatty) not sleeping for days, going insane, and talking like a black Dr. Seuss. Overall I like Pretty Woman better, but that's just because I'm a girl.