summer time
May. 23rd, 2005 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
memelainalast friday i attended my niece's college graduation. it was in a hockey arena with tiny seats, very close together, and way up near the ceiling. i felt good about the graduation partly because of how proud i was of her, and partly because i like to feel that i was a moving force in getting her to start college at the age of 40. not "go back to college" but -start- college, something that she had zero opportunity to do when she graduated from high school at 18.
maybe it was the graduation ceremony (and end-of-school-year thing) or maybe it was the fact that here in colorado we went suddenly from the snows of early may to 90 degree heat. in any case, my mind just suddenly turned a "summer vacation" corner and refused to think of there being anything to do. it was rather a nice feeling while it lasted (i had to get on a plane soon after, and found myself an hour before leaving the house with no thought of a packed suitcase). i'm kind of hoping that i can drag the feeling back for the upcoming memorial day weekend. it was a wonderful state of mind. there in my brain the whole summer was laying out ahead of me so vast and so pleasant and so totally empty of responsibility that it created a very pleasant "ahhhh...." sort of relaxation that existed without any thought of needing to fill the time. i remember summers like that in childhood - bounded by the beginning and end of school and with a birthday lurking somewhere in the middle as the only landmark. do we ever get to do that again?
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lisajulie was talking about her three months off this spring and filling the time with reading and sitting underneath the cat. i would SO like to do that for the next three months - only the idea of sitting out in the sun is also enormously appealing.
sigh. back to work.
maybe it was the graduation ceremony (and end-of-school-year thing) or maybe it was the fact that here in colorado we went suddenly from the snows of early may to 90 degree heat. in any case, my mind just suddenly turned a "summer vacation" corner and refused to think of there being anything to do. it was rather a nice feeling while it lasted (i had to get on a plane soon after, and found myself an hour before leaving the house with no thought of a packed suitcase). i'm kind of hoping that i can drag the feeling back for the upcoming memorial day weekend. it was a wonderful state of mind. there in my brain the whole summer was laying out ahead of me so vast and so pleasant and so totally empty of responsibility that it created a very pleasant "ahhhh...." sort of relaxation that existed without any thought of needing to fill the time. i remember summers like that in childhood - bounded by the beginning and end of school and with a birthday lurking somewhere in the middle as the only landmark. do we ever get to do that again?
lisajulie was talking about her three months off this spring and filling the time with reading and sitting underneath the cat. i would SO like to do that for the next three months - only the idea of sitting out in the sun is also enormously appealing.sigh. back to work.
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Date: 2005-05-23 04:46 pm (UTC)Possibly when we retire?