Hello summer

Junior year is over. I don't think that's hit me quite yet. It was such a good year, academically and otherwise. It was a lot of work, and I was busy all the time, but I wouldn't be happy any other way. And the best part is, next year is going to be even better. I've been home for a day after a nine hour drive from Austin and have realized that I'm not going to be in Austin for an entire three months. And my family kind of hates me for hardly being home this summer at all so I'm trying to spend as much time with them right now as I can. Of course, it doesn't help that my mom works 11-12 hour days, so it's not like I can really hang out with her other than evenings and partly weekends when she's not cooped up in the office. Brother is still in school. So I end up watching good old Bill-O at night with dad (it's how we bond), which inevitably turns into huuuuge arguments as you can imagine (but it's all in good fun! have I mentioned how much he can't STAND what I'm doing this summer? ah well...my dad is still pretty great, even if he is Republican.).

Speaking of summer, it's going to be freakin AWESOME. (My schedule is posted on Facebook for reference). Atlanta in just 9 days or something ridiculous like that, with a few trips here and there while I'm in Georgia. East coast trip this weekend for my cousin's graduation from UPenn. I wish I could be in two places at once to see the seniors graduate in Austin though :(

I have yet to start my apps, after taking my last final on Tuesday afternoon, I've been sooo lazy. Hopefully I'll get on that soon. I have, however, started working on some things for next year which I am wayyy excited about, and better come through. I really hope I'll have time to do work on all this in Atlanta as well.

And I'm going to keep this blog going for the summer, especially during my internship. I anticipate that this is going to be one of those career-defining, introspective, "a-ha! moment" type experiences. I've had two of them so far during my college career. This will be the third.

Right now, I'm reading Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease and Building Hope. (http://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/beyondwhitehouse.html). It's Jimmy Carter's memoir on his post-presidency and philanthropy. holler.

This summer is going to fly.