Summer?

01Aug09

I’ve only blogged a few times these last couple of months, because I’ve been pretty busy with my real life this summer. For the most part, I don’t really ramble about what’s going on with me because I don’t think it’s all that interesting. Unless something funny happens to me (see Words in Passing) or I just have a really bad run of things (see The Blog In Which I Complain About Everything), I normally write about things going on in the world or put up a delicious recipe. Or pictures. Pictures are nice, too. However, in my strenuous effort to procrastinate today, I decided I’d bring everyone up to date. I mean, really, my life hasn’t been that interesting this summer, but I think enough cool things happened over the past three months that I could make some sort of blog entry out of it.

First off, I’ve been working as an HR intern. Most of the stuff I do is filing and sending out letters to people in the company to keep them up to date on the standings of their benefits and such. Since I’m the intern, though, I do get the grunt work like running around and picking things up, faxing stuff, doing refunds and the like. But, it’s a pretty good environment and the money is nice. I’ve actually spent way too much money this summer updating my wardrobe when I SHOULD have been saving all that money for stuff I’ll need next semester at my new apartment. Which brings me to the next topic!

I’m officially moving into my very first apartment in two weeks. It’s where I’ll spend the rest of my undergrad studies, so basically two years. I’m really excited, and I am living with/nearby an abundance of friends. The apartment is spacious and inexpensive, but I think the location explains for that… this same apartment would cost a LOT more in a metropolitan area, but being in the remote foothills of South Carolina, they can only charge so much. But I adore it, and I can’t wait to decorate. Once I have everything set up, there will for SURE be a bunch of pictures and a large entry all about the process.

I’m really FREAKING OUT about all the stuff I need, though. I’ve been living in a dorm for the past two years off a food plan (or with my boyfriend, who buys food and I cook for him, so we both get a delicious and healthy meal… it’s a trade off), so I don’t really have any cooking utensils. Or dishes. Or ANYTHING. You should see the list of things I need to buy, and there are more things that keep popping into my head as I putter around the house. I really want to just go out and buy it all NOW, but I’m containing myself and waiting until I get to my apartment so my room mates and I can sort out what we have and don’t have. I plan on buying a majority of my kitchen stuff, because I’m an avid cook and I really prefer having my own tools. I think I can stock my kitchen fairly well between what my mom’s giving me and what money I have saved for this, but it’s mostly the matter of remembering everything I need that’s giving me troubles.

I’ve done a lot of stuff this summer, though. Lots of traveling when I’ve not been working, or having people come here. I went to my boyfriend’s graduation (so happy for him!), visited his family quite a few times for various gatherings, went to the beach for a week, visited my best friend in Charlotte, hung out with my boyfriend and our mutual acquaintances in Clemson, went to Jacksonville, FL for a weekend, and last week we celebrated my mom’s birthday, so we had a TON of people coming in and visiting. I’ve enjoyed keeping myself busy. It’s very different from last summer, which I spent in Washington doing a whole lot of nothing while my boyfriend worked. We did lots of fun things together while he wasn’t working, like go to the movies or go to cool places in the Washington/Oregon area, but I was alone during the day because I didn’t get a job. I wouldn’t trade the experience for the world, though… it was so much fun!

So in two weeks, my summer will be over. I’ll be back to school with my books, highlighters and ungodly number of notebooks. I’ll probably stop wearing makeup and doing my hair because I don’t have the time, and I’ll be hellishly sleep-deprived. But I’m excited. I love going to school. And this has been a pretty great summer vacation. I feel refreshed and ready to get back into academia.

I’m not too sure about those 8 am classes, though. I don’t know what I was thinking when I was making my schedule…

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