Summer is Almost Here!

Dearest Darling Readers,
Well, it looks as though we may never get that prom post from Freak. Oh well, I can't wait forever to post again.

SO. Summer is just around the corner! Final exams start on Friday and then we are out a week later! Now, don't get me wrong, I am excited to be done with school and under less stress (though I'm doing precollege this summer...so only slightly), but I am for once NOT excited for summer vacation to come. Why, you might ask? Well, summer vacation means that I am going to be gone for nine weeks.

Ever since I was born, and for a hundred years before that, it was tradition for my dad's family to meet up at the family house in Northern Michigan every summer. My great grandmother grew up in the area and lived there year-round. So, we would all get together for a week or two to visit her and each other. Two summers ago, my parents decided to buy a house up there so that we could spend the entire summer in Michigan. That summer though we only spent four weeks up there. Then LAST summer, I spent nine weeks up there, and it was pretty awful, but it wasn't SO bad because Bimbo came up to visit me for a week. This year, I am going away for nine weeks straight and won't get to see any of my friends at all for over two months. That is a sixth of a year, people!

Now, this is totally fine for my parents who have plenty of friends out there and don't really have strong ties to as many people back here. BUT GAH! 90% of the girls out there that I pretend to be friends with are some of the dumbest and most vapid people on the planet! Bimbo can attest to this, she's met them! Now, I do have three fairly good friends out there, but they are weekenders and do not stay up the whole summer like some of the others. My guy friends are okay...but some of them are a little creepy...
But also! This summer is going to be way worse than last summer because, weirdly enough, I have a lot more friends this year than I did last year! Literally, sophomore year it was just the four of us and couple of other people, but somehow and magically this year I have this nice big awesome group of friends. And on top of that, I have Mickey! Not only is he my best friend but he is also my amazing boyfriend who I love so much and will miss SO much! Now, I had a boyfriend last summer too and ask Bimbo, I missed him so much it was pathetic. But I love Mickey so much more than I liked that boyfriend that I have no idea what I am even going to do with myself this summer! Also, all of my other friends, especially Bimbo and Geek, will be together for most of the summer and will be having tons of fun without me! Of course, I want them to have awesome summers...I just wish that I could be a part of them. But NO, I am going to be either cooped up in my summer house, attempting to endure hanging out with "the yacht club girls," or attending precollege classes and a genetics lab internship at Notre Dame. I guess the last one isn't so bad, but that's only for a couple of weeks. GAH!

This summer is going to suck. Oh, and I am very sorry for bringing down those of you who are really looking forward to it. I would be too if I weren't going away for nine weeks...

~Book