i've become a completely callous blogger, i didn't even read this over or spellcheck it even though those things are so easy

well! it has been a while. pretty much the entire summer. last thing you knew, i was discovering this year's new animals; now, here we are, ordering baseball shirts and an electric kettle off of amazon in preparation for another year at school.

and now, an old favorite!!! lists!!!
what happened early on this summer:
the aquarium (jellyfish exhibit, cute penguins, overall too many children and the octopus' terrible beauty gave me the creeps)
walden pond (i'm not that into thoreau, so it was mostly about swimming)
the cape (again, swimming, but also we took james to see some points of interest, including several lighthouses. also i sort of reconnected with my cousin willie but never bothered to explain to him that that was what was happening. we went to the drivein. no big deal.)
carleton's bbqs
got a summer gym membership (saw several colleagues and the head of the english department in the shower, ran into many large russian women bellowing to each other over the tops of the shower stalls [also could have been brazilian - found out this summer portuguese sounds a lot like russian], developed a taste for weightlifting)
taught esl at pine manor, which my grandmother tells me used to be a finishing school (i am now a practiced classroom disciplinarian, although i'm told that freshmen at bc don't tend to come twenty minutes late to a fifty minute class and justify their tardiness by explaining that they are "on time in european time")

later in the summer:
spent a night at boy scout camp (awesome)
helped cook a large dinner for boy scouts (delicious)
cape, again (right now)
more bbqs, also some in-home cocktail hours
went home to san francisco (anxious, but then ultimately pretty great - drove a rental car which could call people using bluetooth technology, couldn't find the microphone so drove all over the city shouting at the dash, rode my horse frequently, played with cats and dogs, went to two museums [deyoung for the chihuly, palace of the legion of honor for women impressionists - more on that later if i feel like it], watched most of the olympics, saw many friends, ate burritos and drank beer in dolores park, hung out with my mother and ate her cooking)
dark knight (2x)
swan boats
butterfly preservation

i know there's more but the prospect of school is looming over me. to be completely honest, i started this post to keep myself awake and occupied until after midnight so i could check a thing on the internet. now it looks like it won't happen until tomorrow morning so i would like to go to bed.