Summer afternoon...the two most beautiful words in the English language

Being home for the summer is a strange mix of things. It took me a good 3 days to pack up my overwhelming amount of stuff in the apartment and bring it home. The last days of school left me with hardly any food because I wanted it to dwindle away. I lived on thai food take out and my always delicious fall-back dinner of frozen tator tots and lumpy chocolate pudding. I now have the unpleasant task of going through all the bins dumped in the living room, figuring what I'll need for the summer, consolidating everything, and sending the rest of it to storage. I was sad to leave school, but I'm generally happy where I am so when I leave school Im sad but then I'm immediately happy to be home. Usually I'm just here overnight once every few weeks, but now I'm here for the whole summer stretch which is sort of nice. My family has been great. I'll start my internship on the 23rd, so since coming home I've had ultimate freedom and laziness. Generally I hate to just sit around daily with no purpose. It makes me feel ineffectual and a waste of air.

When I came home, my brother was working on a movie for his mythology class so I offered to help out with that. It gave me a chance to actually sit down and hammer out all the frustrations I've been having with Final Cut Pro, but I think I've come out of it knowing a lot. I learned how to add titles, cut down audio tracks, and all the basics of editing. I just started working on the beginnings of my long talked about, but not yet realized 'tv show credits' which will feature a made-up tv show and all my friends as the actors. I want to do one for my portfolio because I would give my right leg to eventually create real tv show credits. How cool would that be? To create an intro that would run before a tv show every week and thousands of people would see. For my mother's day, since I am totally broke, I'm designing a book cover for my mom based on a story she wrote called "Gypsy Blood." It's a pretty cheap gift, but I think it'll be something that she likes and it saves me from going into debt.

I'm trying to finish this book I'm reading called "The Historian." It's about a historian who gets sucked into a mystery surrounding the legend of Dracula and it takes him all over Eastern Europe. They throw in a lot of historical facts about Dracula. It's pretty interesting as far as fun reads go. I didn't want anything too heavy for the beginning of summer time, but next up on my list is Lolita, then Capote's In Cold Blood, and hopefully David Sedaris' Naked after that.

I've also just started up on what will hopefully be a regular gym routine. I want to be completely in shape by the end of summer because the stress of finals and being a lazy blob at home this week have turned me into something resembling this guy.