Leverage, says you. I think I feel a change in the winds, says I.

You know, I'm kind of glad that the summer is coming to an end. I'm excited about having not too much to do for a couple of weeks apart from RA stuff. I'm really excited about not having classes, and I'm excited to get out of my end of summer slump, as it were.

I seem to go through times when I just get into a slump. The end of summer is one of these times. Usually though, it's only one of those times if I've spent the summer working and or going to school. At home last summer, I'd spent the summer working, came back to school, had some of the best two weeks of my life, and then was excited about school...though not as a release from the summer. Coming back to Utah was my release at that point.

This summer I've been going to school, and working almost full time all summer. It's been a long time. If I hadn't already promised to be an RA, I might consider just taking the fall off....

...that's likely a bad idea though. I'd get bored halfway through the semester, and then wonder what I was thinking thinking that I needed a break in the first place, and then I'd think I was a lazy bum, start working insanely hard, and then burn myself out halfway through winter and end up needing another break.

Way to regulate, Novel...way to regulate.

Anyway, I'm excited for the change. I'm excited for a new floor, I'm excited for new RA friends, and for new classes that are going to be fun, for working hard, feeling good about myself, getting to decorate my room, getting back into a routine that allows for regular accomplishments of little things that I've been terrible at doing for the past month (letter writing, laundry, room cleaning...bad Novel...bad). Things should work out just peachy. Thank goodness. If any of you are going to be bored/not busy next saturday, I'm going to be moving into my new place. Leave a comment or send me an e-mail if you'd like to help. I'm sure that I could provide some kind of refreshment for those interesting in helping out.

You know what else I'm looking forward to? Some alone time. RA training isn't alone in the least bit...but there are a few days where I get an entire floor all to myself. I get the room...and all the other rooms, paint, butcher paper, my own favorite music blasting however I like it, and time just to be all by myself.

Don't start to get me wrong. I absolutely love being around other people. I like my roommates, I enjoy spending time with them, I think they're great fun, it just feels like I haven't had a day's worth of hours to myself the entire summer...and even with wonderful people, that can start to grate on me (Lilaea and Uffish...don't you dare start to feel badly for yourselves ;).

Hurrah for getting to create something cool...for making a place that's ugly as anything look cool, and for feeling like I'm doing something worthwhile. Hooray for changing winds.