Life As List: July 2009

Since camp, I have been settling back into my normal ... lame existence.
It's a weird transition not having my days planned out for me, and not having to be certain places at certain times.
Nonetheless, tomorrow I am heading down to Myrtle Beach for the weekend,
and then the weekend after that I am headed to the Eastern Shore for a family reunion
... followed by hanging out with Lindsay in the Outer Banks
... and returning in time for the Dave Matthews Band concert.
other than that, I hope to make it up to DC soon ... oh, how I miss it.
I wish the summer lasted longer.

21 July 2009

Whoop, whoop ... I am back.
However, karma is a bitch.
Remember when I was really bummed about having to go to summer camp?
Well, fast forward 2 weeks, and I am completely bummed that camp is over.
I have been in such a slump it isn't even funny.
How did I spend my first night back from camp?
... well, while my friends were drinking and having fun ... I sat in a corner eating macaroni & cheese, drinking beer, and sulking about not having any campers to boss around.
... and by 'boss around' I mean, 'have lots of fun with and genuinely enjoy their company'
this was the third time I have done camp ... and without a doubt, this was the best group of kids that I have had.
They were really too good to be true; throughout the duration of camp, I kept waiting for everything to come crashing down and for them to reveal their true demon-esque selves, but that never happened.
While I know there is a market for drug trafficking, maybe I can tap into a market for smuggling my campers that I liked back into the U.S.

Seriously, go out and celebrate with your friends.

This is the Yorktown Victory Monument ... Liberty stands atop it ... I hear Liberty may be replaced with the bust of Obama.

So this weekend I am heading to summer camp
... to work.
back when I was in college I worked summer camp ... and now that I am happily unemployed/ retired I have no real excuse not to go
but my attitude right now?
ugh
I am like a pouty kid being shipped away for the summer

as well as negatives:
being surrounded by teenagers with raging hormones
having to deal with campers' shenanigans
having to work
not getting as much sleep as I'm used to
basically being held captive for the better part of July
actually having to camp
not being able to consume alcohol for the duration of camp
... and, of course I am completely unprepared ... I have not even thought about packing and I have to go shopping tomorrow for: bandaids, hair bands, batteries, sunscreen, bug spray, flying insect spray, and anti-itch spray in case the biting critters make it to my flesh