well, looks like today is my last day of summer. my classes start tomorrow. i'm ready for some seriously rigorous commuting. i should probably invest in some galoshes.

i love that word. galoshes.

new england weather is crazy. so so so so so so crazy. saturday, i was in the city. and boy, was i soaked. my chucks were soaked, too. galoshes: definitely an investment. my pants were drowning in water. it was gross. i was gross. actually, i don't even want to talk about it anymore.

then suddenly, the following days were sunny and bright, but relatively chilly. it's amazing to think that this time last week was sunshining and bright, high in the eighties. i wish there was more of that weather this summer.

it didn't really feel like summer vacation this year. maybe it was the fact that i had a whole extra month of vacation since i got out of class by the end of may and graduated early june. usually we don't get out of school until about the last week of june. or maybe it was the weather. it rarely hit up in the high eighties, let alone nineties. i could be decked out in jeans and a sweatshirt sometimes, and i still wasn't overheating.

strange. the summers used to always be so hot that i could hear the "zing" in the air from all the air conditioning running from house to house in the neighborhood.

there wasn't too much summer work, either. before AP classes, it was always mandatory to read a required summer reading book alongside with two other books. this year, i had a summer reading book as well for my first year seminar class - which i think is incredibly lame but apparently is mandatory to graduate. it was a pretty chill summer this time around.

i regret not having done much though. i remember last summer i made a whole checklist planning out things i should do and people i should go with. maybe it was the fact that i didn't have many people to go out with, or nobody wanted to do the things i wanted to do.

i spent a lot of time to myself this summer. but i also spent a lot of time with people who actually matter to me, as opposed to fake friendships and fake relationships. i just wish i could have done more.

i'm glad i got to go to the beach twice this summer. it's not much as other summers, but the weather wasn't exactly permitting either. and i went to the aquarium. that was a good time.

i can't believe classes are starting tomorrow. i feel like i'm being pelted with snowballs of work. the reality is, fun time is over. it's time to get to serious business.