I Have No Right To Complain

about school starting. I just realized this. I went to school yesterday for a class at 8:40 am, of course being me that means I left the house at 7:50 to drive five miles and walk for 4 minutes....I like to be early and get a good seat. Anyways I had that class and then had approximately 8 hours to wait until my next one. My plan for later in the semester is to get ever single speck if school work done in these 8 hours. However, it was the first day so there isn't a whole lot to do, except read chapter one of the text book, but who does that anyways. Also consider 1. there is no school next Monday due to Labor day so I don't have this class again for another 2 weeks and 2. I ordered my books online and they aren't here yet, can't read 'em if you don't have 'em! So my 8 hours of productivity went something like this: went to bookstore with friends, ran into my brother! (SIDETRACK: my brother is now going to school with me! How exciting! We will be going to the same school for the first time since I graduated from High School. Anyways I helped him move in to his dorm on Sunday, and he doesn't have a cell phone so I didn't think I would see him but I did!) So back to my day, saw brother, ate lunch with friends and brother, showed brother where his next class was, went to the prep room and then we decided we needed to go shopping, went to Christmas Tree store and bought plates for our home (since Mr. Charles broke one, ooops), went to other stores, went back to school, then decided that we needed to go downtown and have a drink, went to more stores and feasted on samples, then realized I didn't want to buy anything but felt bad about all the free sampling so I pretended to have an emergency and left my unsuspecting friends to make a purchase, haha, then went to friends apartment on campus and microwaved my dinner all while complaining about the lateness of our next class, then finally dragged ourselves to said class, and low and behold I actually learned something on the first day and was interested (almost) the whole time. So my day of shopping, drinking and general gossiping mixed with paying attention in class a few times is my number one reason why I should not complain about school starting.

My second reason for not complaining is that I have today off. I am pretty sure you can find me at noon at the Durham Pool. Hard day? I think not. I might even read Chapter One, if my books come.

Lastly, I have great news, for me, not you. My bestest friend Lorelei bought me a plane ticket to go visit her for a long weekend in North Carolina! I leave on Thursday, and come home Monday night. That means we have 4 1/2 whole days together to have loads of fun and go to the beach and spend time together, because it has been (sadly) over a year since we last saw each other. I am so excited I can barely contain myself. 

I realize this post will be greeted by my friends with disdain because many of them begin their off campus practicums today, or other friends who have started school full swing, or my mom who worked her first summer in 3 years, but I wanted to get myself to realize that it's not all bad and I should try to stop complaining about the summer being over and actually enjoy the last bit!

Lauren