Greetings.
It's been a while. It's always a while in the summer, though. Nothing important enough to write about happens, and when it does, I'm always too lazy to write about it.
Funny how I knew this would happen -- I knew that summer would get very old, very quickly, yet I still wanted it so badly. Now I'm in that summer rut that can only be crawled out of with productivity.
Enter in the AP Gov work. I'm particularly not excited about this; it's not hard to do, it's merely busy-work. Just a bunch of annoying Federalist Paper summaries to write up. I have 1.5/4 of my Federalist paper summaries done, so I figure I should do 1.5 more, and then only have 3 left, and some other dialectic journal crap to get out of the way.
Summer reading sucks, too. I always say that I'm going to read all of these glorious books. Crime & Punishment by Dostoyevsky, etc. Does that ever happen when it's supposed to? No way. I'm always left speed reading the classics a week and a half before school starts, because I always end up too lazy to start the reading when I should. Ambitious summer reading is so stressful. You want to pick out a good book to show off to next year's English teacher, but then you go and pick a book that you don't want to make any time for. That's the trouble with books. If you don't make enough time for them, you can't have them.
I suppose I'll just "read" some Kafka (that "read", is, of course, hinting at a fifth reading or so...) and some Camus. Why not venture out of the existentialist realm? Because you don't like change.
Funny how I knew this would happen -- I knew that summer would get very old, very quickly, yet I still wanted it so badly. Now I'm in that summer rut that can only be crawled out of with productivity.
Enter in the AP Gov work. I'm particularly not excited about this; it's not hard to do, it's merely busy-work. Just a bunch of annoying Federalist Paper summaries to write up. I have 1.5/4 of my Federalist paper summaries done, so I figure I should do 1.5 more, and then only have 3 left, and some other dialectic journal crap to get out of the way.
Summer reading sucks, too. I always say that I'm going to read all of these glorious books. Crime & Punishment by Dostoyevsky, etc. Does that ever happen when it's supposed to? No way. I'm always left speed reading the classics a week and a half before school starts, because I always end up too lazy to start the reading when I should. Ambitious summer reading is so stressful. You want to pick out a good book to show off to next year's English teacher, but then you go and pick a book that you don't want to make any time for. That's the trouble with books. If you don't make enough time for them, you can't have them.
I suppose I'll just "read" some Kafka (that "read", is, of course, hinting at a fifth reading or so...) and some Camus. Why not venture out of the existentialist realm? Because you don't like change.