the pre-summer blues
So I am actually being allowed to take school off today because I haven't been able to take a shower in_____ days.(I'll leave that up for imagination) Yeah we don't have hot water and my mom called the heater people and they supposedly fixed it, but its not fixed! I think at somepoint today I am going to breakdown and take Chuck's offer to shower at his house. I know though, this is all for the best because I will be sooo renewed once I get this shower...People won't even recognize me.
So its official, seniors are out of the school, and I have started counting how many days we have left. On Friday, we will have 19 days left after the day is over.
In fact yesterday I went and told Mars that we get out of school on June 17 when I went to give her dry cleaners receit, because the first tour is the 18th, and I was going to miss it because of school. Then I had a dream last night that school gets out a week later than I thought, but turns out it is still the 17th.
Overall I am pretty excited to be working on House Island this summer. It is nice that it won't conflict with my job at Walnut Hill Stables because Tina's mom, Hilda(but we call her Mars) is the owner of House Island, and will be my second boss. I've heard that I will meet people from all over the world who come on tours to see the Island, and for its famous lobster bakes. I am just sort of anxious to start there, because Mars has been having me do odd jobs (like really odd jobs) at her house until she needs me on the Island when tours start. She is a very interesting woman, who talks more than anyone I know at this point. She is probably at least 85 years old at this point (although to this day she won't tell a soul her age) so she has me do things she can't really move around and do at her house. Its amazing that someone her age can still own and control a huge business, but for her I'm not suprised, she has a lot of pep, I'll call it.
The guitar recital on Sunday went well, although I did have a couple boo-boos. The red dot on my guitar that marks the 7th fret and gives me a reference point while playing, fell off before I had to preform. So I spent 10 minutes stressing out about it before I went on stage, hoping that Nathan might have red dots in his guitar case, where they were before. He didn't, but offered to let me use his guitar, but I decided to stick with mine, thinking that a guitar I had never played before would really screw me up. So I'm going to blame the fucking red dot, as silly as it sounds, for my nerves on edge, and therefore my not up to scale performance. It was fun though, Nathan put Nell and me last on the program for the "Girl From Inpanema" and everyone loved it. He says he is going to put us last act on every program from now on. Afterwards there was pizza and Chuck told me he had tried to pull some strings that day to introduce me to president of Bates (because he went to college there) to make sure that "You get in this day, no questions," he said. He is a really great guy, I hope my mom doesn't dump him. He said his going to Bates was accidental, he happened to be by the college and asked for an interview, and they squeezed him in. He said he spent a full hour talking about his interests in antique cars, and ended up there.
Anyways I better get to my bio project, and my history paper, because that is the underlying reason I stayed home today.
So its official, seniors are out of the school, and I have started counting how many days we have left. On Friday, we will have 19 days left after the day is over.
In fact yesterday I went and told Mars that we get out of school on June 17 when I went to give her dry cleaners receit, because the first tour is the 18th, and I was going to miss it because of school. Then I had a dream last night that school gets out a week later than I thought, but turns out it is still the 17th.
Overall I am pretty excited to be working on House Island this summer. It is nice that it won't conflict with my job at Walnut Hill Stables because Tina's mom, Hilda(but we call her Mars) is the owner of House Island, and will be my second boss. I've heard that I will meet people from all over the world who come on tours to see the Island, and for its famous lobster bakes. I am just sort of anxious to start there, because Mars has been having me do odd jobs (like really odd jobs) at her house until she needs me on the Island when tours start. She is a very interesting woman, who talks more than anyone I know at this point. She is probably at least 85 years old at this point (although to this day she won't tell a soul her age) so she has me do things she can't really move around and do at her house. Its amazing that someone her age can still own and control a huge business, but for her I'm not suprised, she has a lot of pep, I'll call it.
The guitar recital on Sunday went well, although I did have a couple boo-boos. The red dot on my guitar that marks the 7th fret and gives me a reference point while playing, fell off before I had to preform. So I spent 10 minutes stressing out about it before I went on stage, hoping that Nathan might have red dots in his guitar case, where they were before. He didn't, but offered to let me use his guitar, but I decided to stick with mine, thinking that a guitar I had never played before would really screw me up. So I'm going to blame the fucking red dot, as silly as it sounds, for my nerves on edge, and therefore my not up to scale performance. It was fun though, Nathan put Nell and me last on the program for the "Girl From Inpanema" and everyone loved it. He says he is going to put us last act on every program from now on. Afterwards there was pizza and Chuck told me he had tried to pull some strings that day to introduce me to president of Bates (because he went to college there) to make sure that "You get in this day, no questions," he said. He is a really great guy, I hope my mom doesn't dump him. He said his going to Bates was accidental, he happened to be by the college and asked for an interview, and they squeezed him in. He said he spent a full hour talking about his interests in antique cars, and ended up there.
Anyways I better get to my bio project, and my history paper, because that is the underlying reason I stayed home today.