Oh god, how I love summer. This isn't a love I developed upon becoming a teacher. In fact, I've loved summer most of my life in spite of the trouble and turmoil it used to bring--moving, finding temporary work, etc. etc. etc. So to have the summer to myself these days just completes the bliss. I especially love the evenings. It's as though the lengthened days don't stretch out the "day" part, per se, it just make the evenings interminably long. You can sit out in the yellow light for hours and hours, watching the sky turn purple. Cherries come into season for a little while, and nothing is better than that.
This summer is starting out especially lovely. Nothing huge has happened or is slated to happen. No job to find, no wedding to plan, no moving. So I've been spending my days keeping the house nice (which no one has had time for) and taking various fitness classes at the YWCA pool. I read a lot, spend a lot of time doing crosswords or playing games, and enjoy the isolation.
I know some of you are going to respond with the standard "Gee, wouldn't THAT be nice" about being off in summer. But like I've said, it's been this way even when summer was incredibly stressful. Further, the break is greatly needed. You can't go at a teacher's pace indefinitely. You'd collapse or go crazy or both.
So summer is nice.
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Summer seriously, seriously rocks. Sucks to be working, sure. But the sun's out FOREVER, I can get off work and get out to the soccer fields and play a game and it's STILL light by the time we get to the bar afterwards. And house parties and BBQs and swimming and walking to the bars in tank tops and sandals... And everything's green and warm, except the ginger limeades, which are green and chilled. My God. I know I was custom-designed for this world through evolution. But I didn't have to enjoy it so much! Almost wish I was religious just so I could have somewhere to direct my gratitude.
Ginger limeade? Where on EARTH can I get one of those??
There's this Fauxhemian tea house called Teaism here in DC that sells them for $2, but they're probably quite easy to make. Juice a few limes, juice a bit of ginger (according to your taste) (and if you, like me, have no idea how to juice ginger, you can maybe fine-grate it directly into the mix and then strain it out later or grate it into boiling water, let it sit a while, and then strain that and add it to the mix?), add a bit of sugar and a lot of water and ice. Voila. Also good with fresh mint either in tandem with or instead of ginger.
You should grow some fresh mint. It's super low-maintenance and good in an astonishing number of things... Especially salads, yogurt-garlic-cucumber mixes, teas, and lime/lemonade. Nothing tastes like the Middle East or cools off a hot brow like fresh mint. (And the artificial mint taste in gum and toothpaste is to real fresh mint as strawberry Blo-pops are to garden-fresh strawberries -- never knew what I was missing 'til I had the real thing.)
Yeah, I grew up on fresh mint. I, uh, actually tried to grow some but killed it. Actually, it snowed in late April and that killed it, but whatever. I have a brown thumb :(
Brown thumb? Gross.
summer IS awesome. except for yesterday when i suddenly developed one of those vice-on-my-headaches like they always get in the movies. which is why i didn't go skating.
um, shouldn't you have a lot more time for blogging in the summer?
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