Back from the Island!

Well I'm back after a glorious weekend with friends and Bowens in Rhode Island. Despite there not exactly being beach weather for the first few days, we spent most of the weekend outside grilling, S'More-ing, playing badminton and volleyball, and drinking. My body is sooo sore from all that physical activity lol. I've decided that this summer I plan on being more athletic than usual - next week once we're in our new apartment Melanie and I will begin our weekly tennis matches at the park nearby.

I probably consumed 800,000 calories per day; it was amazing but also disgusting - steak, hot dogs, burgers, chicken, beer, dark & stormies, margaritas, etc. Thank god for fiber bars on the side - could have been a bit messy. TMI? Two of the three nights I most certainly raged. Stayed up til 4:30ish the first night belting Adam Lambert; then until almost 6 the third night watching the sunrise with Derek and Katie Bowen. Surprisingly I was not feeling like death either subsequent morning and managed to be a wholly productive individual. I am excited to be back at Chris' house many more weekends this summer! Less than two weeks until gay lovers weekend!

Now it's back to reality, aka working 20 hours a week and being bored. After discussing with MT, it seems I will attempt to start/finish some of my comps, namely the article and book reviews. I found a whole slew of new articles on language usage in Andorra, so I'm banking on one of those perking my interest. Other than that I'm still attempting to learn basic Arabic, beef up my Catalan, and not become a fat blob. I'd also like to work on being legitimately healthy, at least during the week. I've decided to give up Splenda for fear of cancerous tumors down the road and will in general attempt to avoid too much processed garbage.

I've also started to become a bit melancholy with respect to Andorra. I couldn't help but think of this fun weekend as a sort of "last hurrah" for some reason. This morning I got an e-mail about my Fulbright housing situation - August 22nd is not very far at all. I'm starting to think about who will be around when I return, who my friends will be, and just the general readjustment. *Sigh* I should probably just stop being dramatic and enjoy my summer.

2 more hours at the office. Then some gym-age and apartment packing.