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oh summer!
the past two weeks have been crazy with all the work i've been doing. a few 10-hr days at the challenge course, with random programs mixed in, and then 35 hours at the restaurant in the past 4 days - i might have to go back tonight. i've pretty much turned into a morning person... it's no longer strange to just 'wake up' around 7:30 or 8 (though i generally have to go to work by then anyways) and i'm tired by around 10:30. WHAT IS THIS?! the jobs are good though, with compassionate bosses and great coworkers. lizzie made me a lead facilitator this past week. that basically means that i have top authority on days when she's not there, i run the program, and she has a lot of confidence in me. this usually take a semester to a year to happen.. i just finished training in april. sweetness. so that means a raise there, though at the challenge course it doesn't matter much. i do it because i love it. it's still tiring though.
the first two weeks of summer were definitely awesome. i hadn't started work at the restaurant yet, so my days were much more free. lp's lakehouse (a night of extreme nudist debauchery that will never be forgotten), a night with the best friends of yore, chillin' at parker's place (which is one of the sweetest little townhouses ever.. i'm jealous!) and listening to music on the grass at shakori, climbing at the forest theatre, explorations of chapel hill, a water fight followed by a barbecue in the rain (to which most of my highschool friends who still matter came and we had a jolly good time!), and all the little things like cooking with my mom and hanging out with my grandma and seeing my little brother's art show (VERY impressive) and learning to eat healthy and be healthy and just being able to go sit outside in the sun and relax.
i'm doing art again, and writing some, and while it's still not enough, it's better than nothing! my older brother's coming home in a week (newly 21!) and will be here for a good while before heading off to the himalayas for a month. andy's learning to not kill little kids, and he met my god-father and is having a great time partying in random places, and i can still call him up to chat, so that makes the summer away much easier. most of my buddies from chapel hill are still reachable, if not by phone or person, then at least by email. thank goodness. i miss everyone a lot.
i'll leave you all with a concept that i have recently found to be at once invigorating and encouraging while still being one of the most difficult things to maintain. self-discipline! sometimes, you know, i just want to eat a chocolate bar smothered in syrup and fried. ok, not really.
the past two weeks have been crazy with all the work i've been doing. a few 10-hr days at the challenge course, with random programs mixed in, and then 35 hours at the restaurant in the past 4 days - i might have to go back tonight. i've pretty much turned into a morning person... it's no longer strange to just 'wake up' around 7:30 or 8 (though i generally have to go to work by then anyways) and i'm tired by around 10:30. WHAT IS THIS?! the jobs are good though, with compassionate bosses and great coworkers. lizzie made me a lead facilitator this past week. that basically means that i have top authority on days when she's not there, i run the program, and she has a lot of confidence in me. this usually take a semester to a year to happen.. i just finished training in april. sweetness. so that means a raise there, though at the challenge course it doesn't matter much. i do it because i love it. it's still tiring though.
the first two weeks of summer were definitely awesome. i hadn't started work at the restaurant yet, so my days were much more free. lp's lakehouse (a night of extreme nudist debauchery that will never be forgotten), a night with the best friends of yore, chillin' at parker's place (which is one of the sweetest little townhouses ever.. i'm jealous!) and listening to music on the grass at shakori, climbing at the forest theatre, explorations of chapel hill, a water fight followed by a barbecue in the rain (to which most of my highschool friends who still matter came and we had a jolly good time!), and all the little things like cooking with my mom and hanging out with my grandma and seeing my little brother's art show (VERY impressive) and learning to eat healthy and be healthy and just being able to go sit outside in the sun and relax.
i'm doing art again, and writing some, and while it's still not enough, it's better than nothing! my older brother's coming home in a week (newly 21!) and will be here for a good while before heading off to the himalayas for a month. andy's learning to not kill little kids, and he met my god-father and is having a great time partying in random places, and i can still call him up to chat, so that makes the summer away much easier. most of my buddies from chapel hill are still reachable, if not by phone or person, then at least by email. thank goodness. i miss everyone a lot.
i'll leave you all with a concept that i have recently found to be at once invigorating and encouraging while still being one of the most difficult things to maintain. self-discipline! sometimes, you know, i just want to eat a chocolate bar smothered in syrup and fried. ok, not really.