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September 22, 2004Hey, my summer's no bummer...
This is the last day of my summer vacation. As of tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. when I meet with the professor for whom I'll be serving as TA, it’s back into the school routine. Not that I’m complaining, mind you—UCR's always been good to me on a variety of levels, not the least pressing of which has been the financial. Still, one can't help but look back over the summer they just had and wonder, "Did I waste my time this summer, as is so often the case, or was I productive?"
At first blush, the former seemed to be the case. I wasn't working a full-time job, I often stayed up and slept in way too late for my own good, and didn't do as much writing (either fiction or screenplays) as I had hoped.
Still, the summer wasn't a total wash. Far from it, as a matter of fact. I went to my first (and second) baseball game in memory, discovered or cultivated a love of the boba, went rafting for the first time, made going to the gym something of a habit (one I've neglected these last few days, but hey—nobody's perfect), did some voiceover work and attended my first anime convention, visited my family up north, read about three dozen books, got some use out of my PS2, and relaxed to a degree that probably won't be possible once I'm dealing with screenwriting deadlines again. And while I didn't write as much as I should have, I did get about 7,000 words into a piece that, once finished, will be my longest short story to date.
It was a good, relaxing, productive summer. That's my story, as the song says, and I'm sticking to it.
Posted by patrick at September 22, 2004 04:04 PM
CommentsThank you! Chinese Apes.
Posted by: Yellow Monkey at March 2, 2005 03:46 AM
Thank you! Chinese Apes.
Posted by: Yellow Monkey at March 2, 2005 03:49 AM
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