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Summer Vacation, Day 21
Dear Diary,
Twenty days of summer vacation finished and done with. Le sigh. I feel like my days shouldn't be dragging on and on the way that they have been, but at the same time I really don't know what to do about it. I'm trying hard to keep doing things and to keep hanging out with people, but at the end of each day I always feel alone and bored. I rarely feel as though I've accomplished anything of significance.
I have one more day in Santa Cruz, and I feel like I should do something really cool with it. I guess I'm off to a good start, since I'm meeting Wes Beach for breakfast. Wes Beach, since most of you probably wouldn't know, is the man who made my high school transcript, and is therefore the man responsible for my being in college. At least that's what I think. My mum and dad would probably take the parental road and say that I could have done it on my own, that Wes just made it that much easier, but I honestly am not so sure.
Anyway, we're meeing for breakfast at 8:30am. Yeesh. It will be fun, though, and I should start waking up early again anyway. This time in Santa Cruz has been something of a vacation, but starting Friday I'm going to have to once again be working every weekday morning starting at 9am. It's bad that I've gotten into the habit of sleeping in late.
After breakfast I guess I'll hop on the bus back to the UCSC campus and hopefully I'll make it back in time to go to Shakespeare class with Kat. I would go down to the beach or to the Boardwalk or something but I've already spent an obscene amount of money since I came here (a bit over $100, which would have been more than enough to buy a one way ticket from here to Philly - *sigh*) so I won't be doing any of that. Even the beach would cost money because inevitably I'd want to eat and then I'd go buy food and yeah...none of that. So Shakespeare class and little-to-no lunch it will be. I can't wait to get back to the land of kitchens - only the apartments have them here at UCSC!
I've been looking into the cost of traveling to France for next year's spring break. If I book sometime really soon (before my birthday, maybe?) I can get round trip tickets from Washington to Paris for $636. I want to talk to my parents before I make any decisions, but I think that it's about time I go on another trans-Atlantic adventure. It's been two whole years since I was in England, which is amazing to me because, as usual, it seems to be both ages and an instant ago. So much has happened and I think that I've changed a lot, but at the same time I'm not so sure.
Anyway, does anyone out there want to go with me to Paris for a week, March 11-18 2006? Please let me know if you would. I'm not expecting there to be any takers out there, but it would be faaaaaaaantastic if I had someone to spend time with. The whole idea would be so much less intimidating! I am hoping that after taking a year and a half of college French I'll be able to get by reasonably well. It'd be good practice, too.
I want a candy bar. :-( There are no vending machines a flight of stairs away, which makes me miss AU even more. This is so pathetic...why can't I just sit back and enjoy the summer for what it is? I'm so sick of living my life just waiting to move on to the next thing. It sucks.
On that ridiculously melancholy note, I'm done.
Love, Anna
Dear Diary,
Twenty days of summer vacation finished and done with. Le sigh. I feel like my days shouldn't be dragging on and on the way that they have been, but at the same time I really don't know what to do about it. I'm trying hard to keep doing things and to keep hanging out with people, but at the end of each day I always feel alone and bored. I rarely feel as though I've accomplished anything of significance.
I have one more day in Santa Cruz, and I feel like I should do something really cool with it. I guess I'm off to a good start, since I'm meeting Wes Beach for breakfast. Wes Beach, since most of you probably wouldn't know, is the man who made my high school transcript, and is therefore the man responsible for my being in college. At least that's what I think. My mum and dad would probably take the parental road and say that I could have done it on my own, that Wes just made it that much easier, but I honestly am not so sure.
Anyway, we're meeing for breakfast at 8:30am. Yeesh. It will be fun, though, and I should start waking up early again anyway. This time in Santa Cruz has been something of a vacation, but starting Friday I'm going to have to once again be working every weekday morning starting at 9am. It's bad that I've gotten into the habit of sleeping in late.
After breakfast I guess I'll hop on the bus back to the UCSC campus and hopefully I'll make it back in time to go to Shakespeare class with Kat. I would go down to the beach or to the Boardwalk or something but I've already spent an obscene amount of money since I came here (a bit over $100, which would have been more than enough to buy a one way ticket from here to Philly - *sigh*) so I won't be doing any of that. Even the beach would cost money because inevitably I'd want to eat and then I'd go buy food and yeah...none of that. So Shakespeare class and little-to-no lunch it will be. I can't wait to get back to the land of kitchens - only the apartments have them here at UCSC!
I've been looking into the cost of traveling to France for next year's spring break. If I book sometime really soon (before my birthday, maybe?) I can get round trip tickets from Washington to Paris for $636. I want to talk to my parents before I make any decisions, but I think that it's about time I go on another trans-Atlantic adventure. It's been two whole years since I was in England, which is amazing to me because, as usual, it seems to be both ages and an instant ago. So much has happened and I think that I've changed a lot, but at the same time I'm not so sure.
Anyway, does anyone out there want to go with me to Paris for a week, March 11-18 2006? Please let me know if you would. I'm not expecting there to be any takers out there, but it would be faaaaaaaantastic if I had someone to spend time with. The whole idea would be so much less intimidating! I am hoping that after taking a year and a half of college French I'll be able to get by reasonably well. It'd be good practice, too.
I want a candy bar. :-( There are no vending machines a flight of stairs away, which makes me miss AU even more. This is so pathetic...why can't I just sit back and enjoy the summer for what it is? I'm so sick of living my life just waiting to move on to the next thing. It sucks.
On that ridiculously melancholy note, I'm done.
Love, Anna