one week down
So my first week of camp is over. I'm sunburnt and covered in mosquito bites, but the sunburn is beginning to turn tan so that's good (I hate being blonde and fair skinned sometimes, like now). I love my group, so far. I don't have any of the chronic whiners or homesick kids. One of the kids in my group has a "drooling problem" (it's listed on the medical notes page) which is kind of gross, but I guess I'll just have to make sure I have plenty of kleenex or napkinks to sop it up with (eeeeeeewwwww, I get jitters just thinking about it). I hate being called Miss Jackie. It makes me feel like a forty year old kindergarten teacher with bright pink lipstick, dyed hair, and one of thos annoyingly repulsive sweater vests with embroidered pencils and apples (yes this is the vision I get in my head whenever the kids call me that). Today is my half birthday which means in six more months I'll finally be twenty-one. Ooooohhhhh, only six more months. Next week for camp we are going to a farm. I love farms so it's perfect that I live in the boonies between cheeseville Wisconsin and cornville Illionis. But I plan to have my own farm someday where the animals will NOT be slaughtered and sold for food, nope my farm will be a happy little vegetarian paradise where the animals can frolic freely. I have next Friday because I have the rehersal dinner for Sarah's wedding and my mom made me take the whole day off for this (even though I only work from 7-3:30 so I would be home in time) because I have to get ready and she has other stuff for me to do, whatever that is. Then the wedding is next Saturday. It's on a river with an open bar, hmmmmm. And the week after that I'm going to Tampa for the 2005 Pi Beta Phi Convention which makes me nervous. I'm going with Greiner, but I don't have the perfect hair and clothes and I'm being stupid and paranoid but I feel like I'm going to stick out like the what is wrong with this picture. And it's going to be workshop after workshop, but it might be interesting and I get to go on a plane. With a window seat. Then in August it is our "family vacation to St. Louis." And Tom, my stepdad, ordered our tickets to the Cardinals game today, yeah! I'm a loser who is obsessed with baseball. And my White Sox still have the best record in baseball which makes me happy!!!!!