my last bout of summer camp fever
Like any good director, Dave had us pick up our books with our RYLA schedules about a week before school got out. Included is a lot of great descriptions of what goes on at RYLA and what he has tediously planned over the course of the last year. Like any good counselor, tonight I opened my book and read it cover to cover. I say this in jest partially cos I’m probably one of about 10% of counselors who did this and also because if I were really a good counselor I would have done it when I got the book. Instead, I was impressed when i picked up the book from the office only a day or so after it was announced that they were available there. It should be noted this only occured because I had a meeting in the office. I opened it, noticed he got the dates wrong on the schedule, and made fun of him for that a few nights later. Then I put the book in a sack in Kyle’s car. When Kyle and I got back from Lubbock, he told me to take my sack with me. I then sat it in a chair until Wednesday when i tried to shove it in my closet and found it too full to fit into one of my cubbies. So, logically, I went through the sack to figure out if i could rearrange it to shove it into the cubby and forget about it for a long while. I found the notebook for RYLA and though “Oh, i’ll need that in a few days.” And I set it on my dresser. After reading it basically cover to cover tonight, I’m so excited for RYLA. People seem to think I’m crazy for doing something affiliated with college now that I’ve graduated, but I just can’t explain what fun I’ve had the past few years at RYLA and how much I feel like I missed out on something by being sick all through it last year. RYLA is simply awesome. And I have very high expectations for it again this year.
In addition to RYLA being exciting, summer has been pretty great though so stressful trying to plan a move and a wedding and finishing up my last summer at work and all of those things. I have been reading more, though, which was basically my goal. I finished Xenocide last week. I was slightly disappointed by the ending. Maybe it was just too fiction and not enough science for my liking, or maybe I just don’t quite get the need to start a twist in the series this late in the third book. It’s very good though. We also listened to about half of Choke by Chuck Palahniuk on the drive to Lubbock and back. I’d forgotten how much I liked it when I read it, and most of the subject matter, so it was a good refresher. Now I’m working on Naked by David Sedaris. He is fantastic.