let it all begin again

I should have known this would happen.

Summer starts slowly: lots of time with parents, a few coffee dates with friends as they trickle into town. Then all of sudden, summer slams into my life and explodes in a fiery ball of zoo, weekend trips, frisbee, and evening hangouts. Probably the best kind of fiery ball, if you ask me, but always just a little bit overwhelming.

For example, things I've done since last Monday:

- Gone to Bend, twice. Once with zoo people, and now again with Claremont people.
- Turned 24 (!)
- Hung out with three Yalies making their way through Portland, taking them to Pied Cow, Doug Fir, Rimskys, Burgerville, CPK, and Colleen's birthday party.
- Game night at my house, Taboo, Settlers of Catan
- Lots of zoo time. Lots. All staff training, preparation for training, overnight shadowing, etc.
- Seen the weather change from rainy poo to sunny beautiful overnight.
- Began the music recording process with Zoe. Stay tuned.

Etc.

Anyway, everything has been very eventful and exciting. In fact, I would like it to be a little less eventful, but obviously I lead a very interesting life so that comes with the territory. The music recording situation is my current favorite. I hope to have some tracks (some alone, some with Zoe, some original songs, some covers) finished in the next couple of weeks so I can post them to places and immediately become a famous musician.

Also, yesterday I was in Fred Meyer, wearing my new pretty little white dress. While I was walking down the aisles, this older man (probably in his 60's) with a trucker hat and dirty hands walks past me, smiles, and says "I like your dress." It was completely not-creepy and sounded entirely sincere. It completely made my day. I thought about writing an entry about little acts of kindness and things like that but I decided that that would constitute over-analysis of something that's just nice, and I'm trying to do that less.

Okay. I was secretly just waiting for everyone else in this Sunriver house to wake up, so now that's happened and I'm going to go explore a potential apple and peanut butter situation.

(Also, I need a new good book to read. Recommend me the best book ever, ready, go!)