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June 23
I love summer. I love being able to read for an hour while I'm waiting for a bread pudding to bake and - this is the beautiful part - not have anything else I'm supposed to be doing. I ran into a guy from my school today in the checkout at Target, and we both reveled in the fact that we could finally let our brains decompose. Actually, though, I'm determined to get a lot done this summer. I think I say that every summer, but I've made a pretty good start to this one. And since the solstice was Friday and it's now officially summer, I'll start the season as I do every one: making a list of things I learned or got done over the last three months or so. I finally got my driver's license. I turned seventeen. I made two dresses, two shirts, and a rather odd skirt. I learned the words to "The Bricklayer Song" and "The Ladies Go Dancing at Whitsun." I stopped being mad at this girl in my history class who still thinks that most Irish people are Protestant. I managed costumes for a lot of the spring play and all of the Elizabethan dinner we put on every year. I learned to do decent buttonholes with the sewing machine. I finished the Personal Anthology for my English class. I finally learned to dance the salsa, the hambo, and the ladies' waltz. I learned two new cases in Russian and two new tenses in French. I helped put together the quilt my English class made. I learned to make tortilla soup and good pie crust. I learned to spin on a spinning wheel. I finished a quarter of the quilt I started (for myself, not school this time) last year. I got through exams without going crazy. I finally got my garden planted, and it's beautiful.
Feeling: relaxed Song in my head: "I'd be Surprisingly Good for You" from Evita Word for today: dervish Reading: The Once and Future King. I had always thought it would be very serious and dull, full of gory tournaments and such, but the first part was actually very comic. Now it's getting into the inevitable nasty bit, with Arthur and Gueneviere and Lancelot all hating each other, and knights quarreling and killing each other, and Mordred's bound to pop up any moment now. I almost hate reading books about Camelot, because you know exactly what's going to happen in the end, and it's difficult to put any kind of interesting spin on it. So read it, but you might be just as well only reading the first half or so if you want funny bits. Listening to: NPR Link for today: A site on how to open a tea room. Highlight of my day: driving through town (alone! Got my temp license!) listening to a tape of an old Sound & Spirit program June 26 
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