a summer wasting

dear friends,

maybe it is the fact that they have opened up the java u patio, or maybe it is the fact that i have no work ethic anymore but lately i have been procrastinating by looking for summer jobs. i am in the nice position of being fairly mobile and up for almost anything. this is afterall my last summer before actual phd stuff begins (not to be confused with my pretend phd stuff now). i would love to do nothing, but that is not feasible unless i spend 4 months in trenton and put all of my moving expenses on my credit card. i am aiming for something similar to the retirement summer of 2003 where i worked in my office at the stauffer library (aka a desk on the second floor) until the noon mass at st. mary's and then volunteered at martha's table in the afternoons and spent the evenings with shelley sewing, planning her wedding, and planning my potential busting up of one. oh what a summer it was. i made enough to pay the bills and came to mcgill excited about school.

i have had other good summers too-- the summer when i was 13 and watched matlock everyday before i went swimming, the summer before oac, the bbq friday summer, the notre dame summer, the part of last summer where i went to poland, the part of last summer where i came home to the icrm and the juleps. i mean this summer has so much potential, but i am not seeing how it can possibly compare. but, i am open to job suggestions, invitations to visit, or stealing your own good summer memories...

maybe i will just spend the summer hunting wolverines with my uncle,
cam