In the summertime when the weather is fine..

I'm busted..I haven't posted in awhile, but I'm blaming that solely on the fact that it is...SUMMER! The last three weeks have been such a whirlwind and I feel like I've finally just settled down into my summer routine.

My finals and last few days living at Lehigh went well, and were bittersweet in so many ways. I honestly don't think I've ever prepared so hard for two tests as I did my accounting and my micro finals, and as stressed and tired as I was from my efforts, I didn't know what to do with myself after they were done. And although it doesn't seem like it'd be too bad, packing up my room (aka my life) was almost just as hard as the tests. It's amazing how much stuff I accumulated throughout the year, and it was so hard to motivate to get that all packed away, but thankfully it only took me two trips to get everything home.

Just as it was at the end of last year, and even as it is when it's time to go home for winter breaks, it was sad to say goodbye to all my friends. Even though I'll definitely be visiting lots of them throughout the summer, and tons of people visit Lehigh or are here to take summer courses/work, I know it'll only be about two weeks into summer until I count up the number of days until we all move back in in August. I think this year's goodbyes were a little more difficult because I'm friends with a few seniors who are graduating and have a couple of friends going abroad in the fall..but as the saying goes, "and though we wish it could have stayed, we were so lucky to have seen it."

I think by this point it might sound as if I'm really all sappy and sad, but I'm actually not- I'm soo happy to be home, spending some time with my family and catching up with all my friends from home. On my second night home we had a girls' night of dinner and shopping, and last night I battled some of my boys in an intense catchphrase tournament (which I won and I will gloat about to them for the entire summer). We have so many plans for beach trips, dave matthews band concerts, phillies baseball games, Musikfest and a million other things we're going to squeeze in, so I certainly have a lot to look forward to.

As usual, I am unable to sit still and be bored for more than a day, so I started my full time summer job today at Lehigh's alumni association. I'm pumped to be back working at LUAA for the second summer in a row, and already have had a full days worth of tasks to work on. Today I mostly helped prepare some things for the upcoming Traditional Reunion, which is this weekend. Reunion weekend is a time when 800+ alumni, plus their families and guests, return to campus for countless different activities, from parades, to class lunches, to guest speakers and Reunionfest. I'm also working the entire weekend as a transportation driver, so I'll get to help the alumni get to all their activities throughout the campus and hang out with all the other workers as well. I'm looking forward to a great weekend, a fun summer, and I'll be checking in later to let you know how it goesss!