white light riot: midway souvenirs
YOU GUYYYYSSSSSS
THIS IS THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER.
OH NOOOOES!!!!
seriously. how did this HAPPEN?!!!!
i was just minding my own business, drinking margaritas, splashing around in the sun, losing brain cells, and BAM. summer left me faster than a cheap hooker.
oh summer, i hardly knew ye!
tomorrow is my first day back in school. KILL ME NOW.
i… can’t… go back. I WON’T GO BACK!
ok, i will go back. cos i’m THIS CLOSE to finishing my master’s degree, and even if i’m not necessarily a winner, i ain’t no quitter!
plus i only take two classes a semester, so it’s not that bad, right? RIGHT?!
oh sweet fancy moses, deliver me from pointless group projects and inane research papers. please help me to survive class discussions on Absolutely Nothing Interesting and read pages upon pages of Things I Will Instantly Forget. i promise i’ll never be mean to tim again. or make fun of britney spears. PLEASE HELP ME. a-men.
even as i dread the start of school, i take comfort in the fact that i’ve accomplished a lot this summer. such as:
1) hanging out on a houseboat (RICH!)
2) swimming in walden pond
3) MOVING!!! I DID IT!
4) drinking approximately 75 margaritas, on the rocks, with salt, kthnx!
5) dancing myself into oblivion
6) attending my high school reunion and fooling everyone into thinking i am Outrageously Cool
7) surviving the earthquake on the last night of the downtown alamo (RIP my wine glass)
hitting the big apple with my mom! PITRE LADIES IN EFFECT!
9) unleashing “Evil’s Night” into the sky and living to TELL
10) updating this blog every day*, bitches! (*M-F, except for a few times when matt subbed for me)
11) making friends with a TON of babies
12) two words: SCORPION BOWL
13) experiencing the end of the harry potter series SIGH
14) getting pulled over by a cop on the RIVER! cos i’m a gangsta
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dude! that’s a lot! i win!
and to be honest, i’m gonna try to steal a bit of summer and squeeze it into september, all the while pretending like i am So Done with summer and ready to be a dedicated student/employee. i’m pretty sure i can fool everyone, since hello i was the president of the cy-creek thespian society AND i played sally field’s part in “steel magnolias” (”you are special, shelbeh! there are limits to what you can do!”).
i think i’m also gonna try to keep up #10. cos you know, you have to challenge yrself if you want to grow as a person. you have to have GOALS! and while some people may have goals of, say, getting married or raising kids or finding a more fulfilling job, i choose to take it to the Next Level.
these pants were made for blogging!
p.s. seriously, summer, CALL ME?
LINKS
miss teen south carolina got a second chance to answer the question. and unfortunately, there was no further mention of “The Iraq” (non video link here).
did you ever read the v. hungry caterpillar when you were a kid? well, it was one of my FAVORITE books growing up, cos, duh, it’s about food. well, npr did a neat little story about the author, eric carle!
dude. i cannot WAIT to go to the texas state fair and eat fried food. check out these new contenders:
Zesty Fried Guacamole Bites, Country Pride Peach Cobbler on a Stick, Fernie’s Fried Chili Frito Burrito, Mama’s Fried Sweet Potato Pie and B.W.’s Original Fried Banana Pudding. SWEET (fried) CRACKER SANDWICH!!!!!!
two new artists i love: andy ducett (check out his polaroid collages) and joy ang.
ok, this mad tv parody of all of the “dangerous minds” and “freedom writers” type movies is actually really hilarious. COS I’M A WHITE LADY!
guys. it’s just sports. ok? i know UT IS LIFE and OU IS LIFE and whatever. but there’s no need to tear someone’s scrotum off (thanks randy, for the link).
That’s what’s so awesome and fun about not being in school and just working like a dog every day no matter what - this fake end of summer means nothing! Because summer totally doesn’t end until at least September 21st, and even then, I live in Texas, so it will still be hot, there will still be water, and I will still be swimming in it while drinking margaritas. But mine will be frozen, with salt.
This I swear to you, Summer 2007: I will not let you go until you force me to, until you’ve walked out of my life forever and you refuse to look back. Even when you take a day off in early October because you need some time to yourself to try to figure things out, I’ll still be here for you when you come back and tell that cold front to get the heck out of your house, even if you’re only coming back for one more day to pick up the things you left.
At the same time, Summer 2007, I promise you that once you do walk out, I won’t look back. Don’t try to text me from Australia or some other part of that other hemisphere looking for a latenight booty call, cause I won’t have time for that. By then I’ll be kneedeep into my love affair with Fall and Winter of 2007, picking apples in orchards, snowboarding down mountains, and moving on, away from you, fully and completely, and without guilt.
Cause when you do go, you sexy little Summer 2007, you’ll totally be the one breaking up with me. I would marry you in a heartbeat, but you’re already thinking about who you want to go jetskiing with next, aren’t you? Tramp! Hussy!
Wait! Don’t go! I… I… I love you! Please?
NOOOOooooOooOoOoOOOOO!
Wonderful job on the post all day, everyday all summer long.
Are those bunnies or rabbits or kittens, I can’t tell the difference anymore.
i’ve always thought the last day of summer was the saddest day of the year. eden apparently thought that the last day of school was the saddest day of the year. she is a huge dork.
oh summer, i agree. i didn’t get my fair share. i only experienced a couple of assholes and a little bit of sun. lots of rain made for great weeding of the cacti garden, but darkened my soul to release the more contempletive me. a few more assholes later and summer is gone. hopefully so are the tears, but there’s no guaranteeing that. the fall is beginning, the halloween decorations are hung and i’ve begun the panic. summer why must you be like all the other assholes in the world? Let me be! Let me pretend! Pretend you didn’t just want to tan my body and then walk away. sigh. let go, Ann. i empathize with the kitties and bunnies. at least they look cute when their in mourning…
winston, this is why i love eden. i’ll send her a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils.
henri, i saw summer 07’s number on the bathroom wall! ho!
Okay, good news about summer ending. Here’s some things to consider -
1. Summer’s not over. We live in Texas, and it’s gonna be just as hot for another 2 months, and then pleasantly warm for like 5 months. So, summer is kinda sorta over in name, but not in serious sweating capacity.
2. True, you have to go back to school. But aren’t you taking a course in like Young Adult fiction this semester? That’s reason to look forward to a few pointless papers!
3. Summer’s over? Oh snap. I guess that means WURSTFEST 2K7 is just around the corner! Woot!
Um, let’s put this in perspective, ok? At least you and this summer WENT OUT. ‘Tis better to have loved and lost, right?
Summer flirted with me, for like, 3 days in April…and then NEVER CAME AGAIN. It’s not like I haven’t had summer experiences, either. I mean, some summers in the past were pretty hot ‘n’ heavy, if you get my drift. But this summer? COLD AS ICE. WET AS RAIN. The sorry-est summer ever.
I for one am glad to see summer go. Here is my confession: I hate summer! It’s hot and extremely humid and I feel forced to go frolic on a beach which I don’t enjoy because my tender, pale skin burns easily and I look like a peely lobster for weeks. I sound like such a killjoy but I love it when Fall comes around. I would look forward to school starting cause I am a nerd and I also love the fall festivities like Halloween, Octoberfest and Thanksgiving. Yum to turkey, cranberries and corn bread dressing. See ya summer! Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out!
Cheers to that Celina!
But I do love Austin in the summer. I just never returned its call.
i second celina’s commet. or third it. whatever. also, the picture of the kitten looks just like tommy (aka tomtom, tomkitten, tommy kittikins, and STINKYCAT), the newest addition to the campbell-ryan household.