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How's YOUR summer going?

 
  

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Kali, Queen of Kitteh
04:45 / 06.07.02
Withstanding bad news involving family, mine is apparently destined to be a drunken haze. No, really! Coming soon to an A.A. meeting near you!

Dang. Anyway, actually saw three movies in the past week. A new record.

Um, what else? Covered booze. Covered flicks. Sadly, no good bands so far.

Will go away now.
 
 
Saint Keggers
05:10 / 06.07.02
BECAUSE of bad news involving friends/family mine is currently lost in a blissfull numbing drunken haze...im either going to wake up in a keg or coffin either way it looks like its a wood suit for me.
 
 
Mazarine
06:30 / 06.07.02
Duller than dirt. Finally got a job just a couple days ago, got hit by another car in the mall parking lot today (my car, not me personally), wasting my days dreaming of my move to upstate New York in August, wasting my nights panicking about money. Crocheted a nice hooded scarf for myself, and a scarf for my sweetheart, since I'm told the Albany area is wicked cold in the winter time. Oh yeah, and the wisdom tooth removal thing.
 
 
Morlock - groupie for hire
07:14 / 06.07.02
It's summer now? since when? Weather's been piss-poor in Blighty, so it's not really registered for me.
 
 
Ganesh
07:18 / 06.07.02
Wet. Drain outside our flat blocked and ZoCher and I waded through a small lake (I really like rivers, but how can I access running water in this world of...) to the front door last night.

Summers, for us, comprise both of our birthdays, our anniversary and Pride in swift succession, so there's lots of partying to be done. And the end of summer will be marked by ZoCher joining me in London. Woohoo!
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
11:44 / 06.07.02
crap on a crap cracker
no bad news really, just dull as hell.
Add to that my fiance type person getting a new job with a reallin incompatible schedule and my boss unwilling to change mine all that much, and well, you do end up with crap on a crap cracker.
seen 1 band, Rasputina, electric cello is something they came up with a band camp i'm sure...
 
 
moriarty
11:52 / 06.07.02
Very nice with the odd spot of panic. I'm going to spend the remainder of my summer moving twice and trying to gather up the necessary funds for school. My bed has been sold out from under me, and soon I will have no couch. A month from now I'll know if I'll be living in Oakville, Ottawa or North Bay.

I'm finally beginning to appreciate the forest. I've taken to going outdoors at dusk and sketching pine trees. Most sedate summer ever.
 
 
Trijhaos
11:55 / 06.07.02
About as exciting as watching grass grow and it doesn't look like it'll be getting better any time soon.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
19:03 / 06.07.02
Great. Having a fun time. Lots of money, lots of drugs, lots of attractive people. And that's just at work.
 
 
Captain Zoom
20:41 / 06.07.02
moriarty, Oakville's really dull in the summer, but I'm here, and I'm a barrel of laughs.

My summer's quite good actually. The kiddies are out of school and appear to have lots of disposable income to blow at my shop. We finally got an air conditioner for the apartment, hopefully alleviating any more sleepless nights due to EXTREME HEAT!!!! I've yet to have a proper back yard party at my parents' place, but it's a comin'.

Though, in spite of all that, I still dislike summer intensely. Give me Fall.

Zoom.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
20:49 / 06.07.02
So far? Dead. Hayfever is worse than it's ever been. I work weekends and have to walk in (can't drive) past a couple of farms, a garden centre and miles of open land, so from midday Saturday until Tuesday morning I'm absolutely useless.

Also, need to save cash in order to quit the part time job ready for final year of Uni, so that's double no going out.

On the plus side, I'm finally making headway in the huge pile of unread books that's built up over the last eight or nine months.
 
 
MissLenore
21:48 / 06.07.02
It's been shit. Complete and utter shit. Next year I am skipping summer.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
01:03 / 07.07.02
I have discovered the secret art of "motivation" this summer. I haven't had an exciting time, but (for the first time in a long time) I've had a productive time. I'm just about all set up to return to school in the fall, I've been learning HTML at an alarming rate, I've gotten tons of writing and artwork done, and I can see the completion of my zine off in the not-too-distant horizon. And I'm quite happy about all of that, thank you very much.
 
 
ill tonic
03:57 / 07.07.02
Since june I've felt born again :

-got rid of the psycho room mate
-won money in the lottery
-I'm exercising
-dating again
-writing my brains out
-have high energy and
-money in the bank

Things couldn't get much better.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
04:05 / 07.07.02
Early Sunday morning and is it any surprise I might intoxicated? Didn't think so.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:05 / 07.07.02
It's poo thus far. Still, mustn't grumble, eh?
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
08:11 / 07.07.02
It's summer?

And that's different from any other time of year, how?
 
 
rizla mission
10:10 / 07.07.02
The Good:

got guitar.
going to brighton to see The Boredoms.
possibly going to Ladyfest in London and/or some good gigs in Leicester in August.
annual book-hoarding trip to Hay on Wye in preparation
first issue of my Zine nearly ready for photocopying

The Bad:

not exactly drowning in money
failed my driving test again
all friends a long, long way away
THE FUCKING WEATHER
early stages of dissertation not exactly racing forward with unstoppable momentum
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
14:39 / 07.07.02
This summer is still wearing its Y-fronts on the outside. I have talked to it about this, and it claims they are warmer that way.

Go figure.

Autumn is threatening to wear a gimp suit until October, and we're all a bit worried about Winter, because she has piles.

All in all, the year ahead looks rough.

But you should see '03. Oh, boy, does that year have 'Larval monstrosity wears bikini in Underworld revolutionary payback scheme sponsored by BCCI and living proof that Versace saves lives' writ large across the side of its eighteen-wheeler. Hooboy. Reserve your complimentary lifejacket now, three possible colours, children's version available.
 
 
Cherry Bomb
16:17 / 08.07.02
It's a roller-coaster of emotion.

Sometimes fabulous, sometimes crap, quite frankly...
 
 
Persephone
20:26 / 08.07.02
Just beginning, and am trying to figure out what to do with it --my first summer in three years free from any obligations whatsoever.

For starters, I finally arranged my plant stand on the back porch... at the moment it's populated only with the potted remains of plants that died from not getting, um, water... my non-maternal instincts extend to the vegetable kingdom, apparently... includes a spectacular fried specimen of a violet that was my welcome present to my present job, three chrysanthemums that I cut back in winter to come back in spring that aren't coming back, and a sere Zen sandscape in a wok which has (had) one blade of grass growing ...so it is, actually, quite a striking display.
 
 
Puzimandias
20:38 / 08.07.02
Gave up old job (hooray!)
Found new job (hooray!)
Got laid off from new job (arse!)
Back on the dole, life going around in cycles. In same situation as I was in 10 years ago, with less cash and more videos.

Sigh
Summer is the worst, roll on autumn when the fever is more Saturday Night than Hay.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
20:57 / 08.07.02
Ah, the summer... The best of times, the stressed of times.

This summer, I find myself without a permanent job, doing whatever temp work can be found (right now, this means working in a mail room, about as fun as it sounds, with added co-worker racial prejudice for bonus). I wouldn't mind too much if summer wasn't also the time when spending that cash money seems to be all the more tempting - who wants to sit in on warm balmy nights? Don't complain about the UK weather, it keeps me somewhere near solvent...

But also this summer, I find myself in something approximating a proper relationship - one that's a lot of fun, easygoing, full of genuine affection but also porny filth, etc etc (god, I once promised never to talk about my sex life on the 'Lith, did I just break that?). It rocks. She rocks. It's all good. It's taken me completely by surprise, and for once John Lennon was right about something - life is indeed what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Plus, a fantastic artist is drawing a comic script I wrote, and other ideas are brewing. And I love living in "the centre of things, from where everything stems"... King's Cross represents, baby.

Basically my only worry is money. Same as it ever was, eh?
 
 
w1rebaby
21:15 / 08.07.02
Apart from having to learn to drive, quit my job, find another job, move out of my place, get a visa, move to a new country, find somewhere to live there... it's an entirely stress-free summer.
 
 
BioDynamo
21:45 / 08.07.02

Split up with girlfriend again. Actually, she dumped me, so I figure it's permanent this time. Sad. Almost two years together.

So now I compensate by doing silly political work that I don't get paid for. Stupid me, when I could be lying in the sun all day.
 
 
Disco is My Class War
06:33 / 09.07.02
It's actually winter here. I don't have a job anymore, by choice. I just spent a whole week and a half in a house by the sea by myself. Well, mostly by myself. Sometimes there was company and vodka and sexfun and open fires and long walks.

It's a fucken doozy of a year...
 
 
Baz Auckland
09:37 / 09.07.02
Being in the UK I'm not sure if summer started or if it's over now, but it was fun. I quit Sbux for the last time, and spent the last month travelling around Paris, Ireland, Scotland and London. Much fun.

Tomorrow I move back to Canada! Which is exciting, but the thought of job and apartment hunting in Toronto is making me shudder with memories of the last times I did that. ...and it's 110 degrees and there's a garbage strike on right now too... In September I get to become a history student at U of T! Ah, the warm womb of school, how I missed you in the last year!

I feel a lot better for having written that out. Wow. I'm having a great summer!
 
 
Thjatsi
09:46 / 09.07.02
This summer has consisted of the most fun I've ever had in my life, nonstop, for the last month and a half. All sorts of interesting books to read, games to play, movies to see, and I get to spend lots of time with my friends from high school. Halfway through August I'll have to go into insane work mode for the next six years; so I'm enjoying myself as much as possible.
 
 
betty woo
11:53 / 09.07.02
Barry: the garbage strike isn't too bad, provided you avoid places like Chinatown, and the heat has broken a little. Apartment hunting, however, isn't any easier than it was when last you were here.

I'm spending the summer working so I can enjoy the fall. What a good little ant I am, neh? Aside from that: reading, spending time with a boy who's alternately good crazy and bad crazy, biking all over the city. I found an editor for my film (finally!) and so things are generally looking up. Missing the lazy, hot days on my deck, however.
 
 
Grey Area
13:37 / 09.07.02
One (1) pleasant surprise upon returning home: It's warm...! I've packed all wrong and so have to go out and buy shorts and T-shirts. Didn't expect this, and that's a fact. It makes a nice change from the non-summer we were having in Ireland when I left, but of course I'm sure that there's been nothing but blazing sunshine in Belfast today.

And apart from that? No job and plenty of academic work that kept me inside and screwed up my mind. At least now I can sit in a garden where chirping birdies provide a pleasant backdrop to the whirr of my laptop and the rattling of the marbles in my cranium.
 
 
RiffRaff
13:38 / 09.07.02
I've just started classes at the Art Institute (of Pittsburgh)... got "Fundamentals of Design" in an hour. Should be interesting...
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
14:21 / 09.07.02
Terribly, for obvious reasons. Leaving my life to go back home to the parents and find a job.
 
 
uncle retrospective
21:18 / 09.07.02

Summers going well at the moment, I've starting hanging round with some new friends and having a ball, This is my second day at work after 2 1/2 weeks off cause I took loads of holls which inclued 6 days on site at glastonbury, which was brilliant. Saw Tenacious D on saturday and it's been a good while since I've been rocked that much.
So the rest of the summer is looking chilled out and I've an Orbital DJ set to look forward to on saturday.
Now if I could just get the sun to stop hiding from Dublin.
 
 
alas
04:00 / 10.07.02
i'm working and writing, a lot, and just got back from a couple weeks in the Rocky Mountains and visiting the folks backhome. (Thank god, Rothkoid reminds me, I don't have to go back to live with them. Maybe any summer where you don't have to move back to the parents is a fabulous one) It's been a fine summer but really busy. (this is my first time on barbelith for i think more than three weeks, maybe a month.)
 
 
Cherry Bomb
06:16 / 10.07.02
I will say this summer would be a whole lot less stressful if £500 would just fall from the sky and into my lap...
 
  

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