Simple Summer

As summer reminds me it will soon be coming to a close I look at my to-do list and realize how much of it has not gotten done. At the same time, there have been lots of wonderfully simply and unplanned joys of the summer, too.

• Getting a job with International Student Services on UW's campus only days after returning from Guatemala. Sometimes I just get lucky!
• Drive-in Movie madness with Leslie and John. Falling off the teeter-totter, visiting the projection booth and loving our double feature of Kung Fu Panda and Indiana Jones.
• Watching a beautiful sunset with Mike and Suzanne at the Terrace
• Lunching and fishing with Julia in Lake Monona -- I wonder if our pole is still there?
• Volunteering to be a conversation partner with Laura, a visiting dairy science researcher from Spain who will be on campus until December.
• Eating as many strawberries as I wanted while picking them for our CSA customers.
• Catching up with Matt and Tegwen (whom I hadn't seen since their wedding).
• Making connections with other incoming law students passing through town.
• Concerts in the Square with Clare, Juli, John and an assortment of other friends who join us now and again. Plus the added joy of bumping into others while there. It's such a summer hot spot!
• An occasional long weekend, keeping me rested and ready to take on what's next. I think this is the most under-employed I have been in more than a decade. Money's tight, but I don't have to keep a schedule.
• A day of arts and entertainment in Iowa with my mom. We saw Into the Woods in the afternoon and then went to my mom's New Horizon's band concert that evening. Can't remember the last time I'd been to the theatre -- how sad is that!
• Got a flat tire on my bike, so had to walk my bike home. However, scored a free shelf I needed for my bathroom on the walk, which I never would have gotten if my tire hadn't gone flat.

I have law school orientation the week of August 25th - 28th. And then will be off and running non-stop or so I am told. Just ordered a laptop and printer for school, which hopefully I will have sometime next week. The law school has given me a list of things I need to do before Orientation begins, as I will be getting my first assingments due on the first days of classes that week. So much for Labor Day weekend.