Michigan's Missing Glove

Playing Catch-Up | May 16, 2010

Oh, gee! It’s summertime! I moved back home from school yesterday – while battling a nasty summer cold, no less – and am now fully prepared for Summer Break 2010 to commence! I’ve got a lot of interesting stuff going on, and since there’s “a lot” of it, I think describing it to you, dear readers, calls for one of my handy-dandy bullet-point lists (in chronological order, from earliest to latest summer activity):

• Jacksonville and Myrtle Beach with my dad’s parents. We’re heading out this coming Friday and returning the following Wednesday. In Jacksonville, I’ll get to see my dad (whom I haven’t seen since Christmas, I think) and my brother (whom I haven’t seen in a month)! Myrtle Beach is just for fun, since my uncle has a condo there, and I hope to get some fun reading done on the nine hour-long car rides to and from Florida, so be on the look-out for some Officially Unofficial Reviews in the near future!
• Editorial Internship at The Hedgehog Review in Charlottesville. The Review – as I will tell you, or you can click the link and see for yourself – is an academic and public interest journal that picks one topic (the most recent one was Emotional Control) and edits the work of scholars from various academic fields, not just one science or one liberal art, for example, so that it’s more accessible for educated readers outside of those faculties. To finance this venture, I’m recruiting the help of my parents and both sets of grandparents, as well as working part-time as an assistant for a research unit in UVA Health Services, which should help me start a higher-yield savings account than the sad, sad one I currently have. I’ll be subleasing an apartment from my friend Kelly and rooming with our mutual friend Jennifer, from 12 June to 6 August, which will be fun since so many of my friends will be in Charlottesville this summer! The internship will also be a great foot in the door for publishing because the journal is small and I’ll get experience in many different “departments” (e.g. publicity/marketing), not just editorial.
• The “Legit” Myrtle Beach trip in August! This one I’m really excited about because my family hasn’t been to the beach together since I was fifteen. That’s five years ago now! The week before I go back to school for the fall, we’ll be enjoying North Myrtle Beach and each other’s company.

Aside from these big plans and trips, I’ll be working on a shorter summer to-do list because let’s face it: these things never get fully accomplished and it’s less depressing if you only missed one, not twenty:

• Extensively re-organize and clean my messy room (on which I’ll keep you posted).
• Work on Tor House, the novel I’ve had on hiatus for two and a half years, practically.
• Get my crummy root-canaled tooth filled with peroxide (bleach) so I can actually use home-bleaching kits on my teeth and look like a normal person.

So, all around, more so than the top of most summers, this one looks to have a lot of promise. I’ll post again tomorrow, most likely reviewing the Season 6 finale of House, M.D.

P.S. I got into the Media Studies major, so I’m now doubling in English and Media Studies! I would have told you when I found out back in March, but if I updated during the school year, y’know, I probably wouldn’t have the grades to double major.