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The end is nigh, though for some working stiffs, the summer doesn't really mean much change in pace anyway. For the rest of us however, I hereby dedicate this thread. What have you done with your summer, and what do you have to look forward to (or dread) as September nears?

The end is nigh, though for some working stiffs, the summer doesn't really mean much change in pace anyway. For the rest of us however, I hereby dedicate this thread. What have you done with your summer, and what do you have to look forward to (or dread) as September nears?

Worked a bit, mostly bummed around on NSG 'round the office. Drank a lot on the weekends. Visited some places I haven't been to in a while. Hung out with friends a lot.

Ooh, and went to a really nice sushi place a ways out from where I live.

I have dragged my little ones to four powwows, five feasts, a pilgrimage, and numerous camping trips, including the week long one I just returned from which is an annual family event that sees four generations party down in the woods. We were in bear country, and also getting midnight visits from a lone wolf, but all was well. Oh, and we checked out a corn maze on the way back. It was kind of spooky.

I basically spent my summer spending time with my kids and recovering from my first year of law school. Some days were mind-numbingly dull, but overall, I think the kids had a wicked four months.

I am extremely happy to be returning to school however. I'm freakin' tired. Vacation my ass.

The end is nigh, though for some working stiffs, the summer doesn't really mean much change in pace anyway. For the rest of us however, I hereby dedicate this thread. What have you done with your summer, and what do you have to look forward to (or dread) as September nears?
I look forward to band competitions and dread school starting. REALLY dread school starting. Three more years of being compared to my sister, yay! :(

Oh, and I have done nothign this summer except mess around on the internet. I haven't gone swimming. My bathing suit doesn't fit anymore and i can't find any smaller ones :(

Largely teh interwebs, and sleeping.

Sometimes both.

I have dragged my little ones to four powwows, five feasts, a pilgrimage, and numerous camping trips, including the week long one I just returned from which is an annual family event that sees four generations party down in the woods. We were in bear country, and also getting midnight visits from a lone wolf, but all was well. Oh, and we checked out a corn maze on the way back. It was kind of spooky.

I basically spent my summer spending time with my kids and recovering from my first year of law school. Some days were mind-numbingly dull, but overall, I think the kids had a wicked four months.

I am extremely happy to be returning to school however. I'm freakin' tired. Vacation my ass.

Sounds like a blast. Yeah I can't wait for classes to start again.

...though Quantum Mechanics is going to kick my ass.

...though Quantum Mechanics is going to kick my ass.

Possibly. until the class is taken it exists as a superposition of kicking your ass and kicking you in the groin.


What? You expected "not kicking you"? Pff, yeah right.

And of course, I haven't been able to see any RL friends until band camp...

pretty sucky summer.

Possibly. until the class is taken it exists as a superposition of kicking your ass and kicking you in the groin.


What? You expected "not kicking you"? Pff, yeah right.

Schrodinger has a lot to answer for...

I worked and spent most of my free time either here or romancing Lisa...

And of course, I haven't been able to see any RL friends until band camp...

pretty sucky summer.

Your sister had a much better holiday, why can't you be more like her?

:)

Your sister had a much better holiday, why can't you be more like her?

:)

Oh.

my.

effing.

god.

i have heard that so many times i am about to punch somebody.

you see, being told to be morel ike my siste ris the EXACT reason i'm dreading school.

I know it was meant to be humorous but i find little humor in that.

I've done nothing to be proud of.:(

Unless you consider nothing something to be proud of.

Jesus fucking Christ on a stick people! It's not about 'who did the more noteworthy things'...did you do anything that you enjoyed this summer...at all?

And if not...there's till time.

You can also have some cheese with your whine.

The end is nigh, though for some working stiffs, the summer doesn't really mean much change in pace anyway. For the rest of us however, I hereby dedicate this thread. What have you done with your summer, and what do you have to look forward to (or dread) as September nears?

Moved from my comfortable existence in Atlanta, to the wilderness where the food is bad and the women look like men.

Jesus fucking Christ on a stick people! It's not about 'who did the more noteworthy things'...did you do anything that you enjoyed this summer...at all?

And if not...there's till time.

You can also have some cheese with your whine.

I had band camp. It was enjoyable. However school is starting and it's beginning to cancel everything out.

Jesus fucking Christ on a stick people! It's not about 'who did the more noteworthy things'...did you do anything that you enjoyed this summer...at all?

And if not...there's till time.

You can also have some cheese with your whine.

*imagines that colourfull analogy*
:eek:

Actually, I really didn't do much of anything that I enjoyed... but..
there is still time as you say.
I just need to stop procrastinating, finish my work, and somehow lure my friends to go camping with me.

*inhales the cheese*
Ah, quite a fragrant, yet dry, flavour.

Oh.

my.

effing.

god.

i have heard that so many times i am about to punch somebody.

you see, being told to be more like my sister is the EXACT reason i'm dreading school.

I know it was meant to be humorous but i find little humor in that.

I was always compared to my older brother, but he was a complete criminal at school I had a lot of leeway - in many ways I thank him for setting such low standards.

I was always compared to my older brother, but he was a complete criminal at school I had a lot of leeway - in many ways I thank him for setting such low standards.

Unfortunately my sister is an overachiever. And she's YOUNGER than me.

I had band camp. It was enjoyable. However school is starting and it's beginning to cancel everything out.

You know, this one time at band camp...

This summer:

- Took a history class at uni and got an A.
- Family vacation to Lake Tahoe.
- Played computer games, surfed the web, and watched tv all day.

This summer was pretty nice, but I just wished my brother's ps2 would've have come in sooner, so I could play it longer. I probably won't have as much time during the fall semester.

Well done, a summer thread has gone emo. GG, generalites.

As for my summer: internet, sleep.

Well done, a summer thread has gone emo. GG, generalites.

Dude, it's the end of summer. Everyone is emo.

Summer is for the weak. Winter is where it is at.

Dude, it's the end of summer. Everyone is emo.

Time to break out the chunky glasses and excruciatingly tight jeans, then.

Spent a month wandering the Queen Charlotte Islands with some friends from Frankfurt, smoking weed, hitchhiking... It was magnificent. I have found my new favorite place - so long, Amsterdam!:eek:
... I'm only half kidding.

Took a couple of online classes and earned some more credits.

Worked the usual 40 hour week every week.

Did a lot of disc golfing, played a lot of video games, and went to a lot of local music gigs.

That's most of it...the rest I leave to your collective imaginations. ;)

Not much, hung out with buddies. I went to Kentucky and Georgia for two weeks though...

Nah, I've still got a full month left.

- I took 2 summer classes and passed both. I got a new job as a pharmacy technician. I also smoked a lot of pot and started listening to eminem again. Will the real slim shady please stand up. please stand up...:p

I worked the whole summer, but it was worth it because I have an extra $6,253.10 in my bank account, which will sadly be going towards my college tuition.

Still have another month. Maybe I can do what I didn't do for the first three months and accomplish... something. Anything.

Let's see. I've gone to three baseball games, driven to the top of Pike's Peak, become a member of the Pike's Peak Friends of the Library, become the sole support of Border's bookstore, gone to a Celtic Woman concert, gotten my Colorado driver's license, gone to California to watch my daughter get her Master's degree and gone to the Colorado Renaissance Festival. Pretty slow, really.

Jesus fucking Christ on a stick people! It's not about 'who did the more noteworthy things'...did you do anything that you enjoyed this summer...at all?

And if not...there's till time.

You can also have some cheese with your whine.

i'll let you know when it's my summer

The end is nigh, though for some working stiffs, the summer doesn't really mean much change in pace anyway. For the rest of us however, I hereby dedicate this thread. What have you done with your summer, and what do you have to look forward to (or dread) as September nears?

worked. did a few summer-ish things, like a picnic at a nearby castle, couple of visits to the beach, but generally its been a shitty "summer" anyway (in terms of weather)

i am however going on holiday to France (near Nantes) this coming wednesday :)

Summer will begin in about 3 months here mate. Some of us who use this site are Aussie too. That's right I'm in the land where the water goes backwards down the drain.

Summer will begin in about 3 months here mate. Some of us who use this site are Aussie too. That's right I'm in the land where the water goes backwards down the drain.

Meh.

I've been struck in the groin seven times this summer. Twice by paintballs, once with a wooden practice sword and the rest with human extremities. *nod*

I've been struck in the groin seven times this summer. Twice by paintballs, once with a wooden practice sword and the rest with human extremities. *nod*

Just for the record, these are human extremities of the limb persuasion, yes? I'm a little unsure as to the mechanics of hitting someone in the groin with a torso, you see...

Just for the record, these are human extremities of the limb persuasion, yes? I'm a little unsure as to the mechanics of hitting someone in the groin with a torso, you see...

Two were definitely feet. One was a fist. The fourth I'm not certain of as I was in the middle of a multiple-person tackle though I suspect it was an elbow. *nod*

Broken up, drank, smoked, travelled a little bit domestically, awaited my return to Sheffield.

Australia. No summer for me. On my mid-year holidays, however, I posted on NS and played Civilization. That was pretty much it.

I wrote a screenplay for script frenzy and managed to finish all of my summer assignments, even one which now means nothing since I won't be able to take the class it was for.

I'm afraid of what this first semester will be like. I'm looking forward to getting the hell out of high school. I'm looking forward to buying a big baggy o' weed from fellow classmates.

This summer I've gone to DC, and the beach.

The end is nigh, though for some working stiffs, the summer doesn't really mean much change in pace anyway. For the rest of us however, I hereby dedicate this thread. What have you done with your summer, and what do you have to look forward to (or dread) as September nears?

I moved in with my boyfriend.
And I'm hoping to find a new job in September.

Whatcha doing an end-of-summer thread for when my summer ends on October 15th? Honestly, lady, no tact at all. No intercultural sensibility.

So far.. bought hepa sof skirts and even wore them some, had old flatmates move out and new ones in, had my dearest half break my heart when he went to, uh, voluntary solitary confinement holidays for a month but looking forward to having him back next week; I was pseudo-academic finishing some term papers and allegedly studying for my upcoming Latin exam, got some miles on my inline skates, and I'm really looking forward to going on a one-week biking tour to the sea with my friends the beginning of October.

i've see lots of comedy at the edinburgh fringe, been to a couple of parties, slept rough, had a barbeque, had a birthday, went out for dinner a couple of times. but the summer's not over yet, i will be having a party of my own next saturday, there's plenty more shows to see and i'm going to venice in september. and through it all i am searching for a job, any job that will pay the rent. oh and i graduated uni, that was pretty memorable.

Sounds like a blast. Yeah I can't wait for classes to start again.

...though Quantum Mechanics is going to kick my ass.
It already did that for me, next year there will be the rematch.

University starts in mid-October again, so I'm looking forward to more of the same... nothing.

Eh, summer is just another season now - has been for the last decade or so since I got out of school. But I've had a good one nonetheless:

* Got married
* Lovely honeymoon in Germany
* Took my first hot air balloon ride
* Got a nice bonus at work

Not bad!

Eh, summer is just another season now - has been for the last decade or so since I got out of school. But I've had a good one nonetheless:

* Got married
* Lovely honeymoon in Germany
* Took my first hot air balloon ride
* Got a nice bonus at work

Not bad!
Nice! Where'd you go?

Your mum.

Oh also lots of camping and walking, plus Leeds Fest in a couple of days, huzzah. Then more camping after that, at which point it's back to the grind (:().

Nice! Where'd you go?

My wife is German, so we spent the majority of time visiting relatives in Schwaebisch Gmuend (sorry, don't know the keystrokes to get the umlauts in there), a small town about 40 km east of Stuttgart. Also went down to Neuschwanstein for a day to celebrate my mum's birthday (they were also in Germany at the same time). Spent a couple of nights in Kaiserslautern as well on the way to and from Frankfurt...

In the real world: overtime, lots of overtime :( Though we're planning a trip, probably to the Dominican Republic, in the coming months.

In the not-so-real world: conquered Rome and India and currently punishing the Aztec empire for an unwarranted attack on Tyre.

Sorry, I'm not that interesting.

My wife is German, so we spent the majority of time visiting relatives in Schwaebisch Gmuend (sorry, don't know the keystrokes to get the umlauts in there), a small town about 40 km east of Stuttgart. Also went down to Neuschwanstein for a day to celebrate my mum's birthday (they were also in Germany at the same time). Spent a couple of nights in Kaiserslautern as well on the way to and from Frankfurt...
Nice to hear you've had a good time.

Next time you have a chance, come to visit the North as well. :)

I learned how to knit (and purl, increase, decrease, and cable). I worked unpaid overtime every day at my research job because I loved it. I visited my boyfriend and sister. And I learned some life lessons about what it truly means to be happy and to be successful.
I'm dreading my internship and my two classes (microeconomics and transport phenomena, mostly because I'm taking them correspondence). Once again, I feel I probably bit off more than I can chew ... I'm really good at that.

Nice to hear you've had a good time.

Next time you have a chance, come to visit the North as well. :)

Well, we're hoping to move to Germany in the next few years (she wants to move home, I want to get out of the States), so I'm sure we'll have plenty of opportunities!

I've been to Germany a number of times already, but have spent the majority of the time in the southwest - Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Kaiserslautern. I did go through Berlin and Munich back in the early 90s, but haven't been back since. Seems that most of my trips to Europe involve spending copious amounts of time in the pubs of London....

I did the following:

Went to Cleveland, Arizona, and North Carolina.

Caught a bass after like 4 hours of fishing. Then I threw him back.

Saw all three Bourne movies.

Got my driver's license.

Learned my 280z needs a new $600 USD fuel pump. :(

Got banned from NSG for a day.

So all and all, a good summer.

EDIT: Fuel pump is only $125 :D

The end is nigh, though for some working stiffs, the summer doesn't really mean much change in pace anyway. For the rest of us however, I hereby dedicate this thread. What have you done with your summer, and what do you have to look forward to (or dread) as September nears?
Don't kid yourself. We that work year round take vacations, start outdoor projects, make more weekend trips to the lake, and all sorts of things.

My summer was particularly eventful. I got the barn repaired, re-roofed, and re-painted.

I took the kids on a road trip.

I bought a new car (read new to me, but still pretty nice)

I put my dog to sleep

I got two new kittens

I got fired

I wrote a book

I survived my husband being very sick, and even though he is still pretty sick I seem to be doing the supportive wife gig much better than I thought I could.


This fall, I have to teach P.E., Spanish, and Creative Writing, I will sub occasionally at the high school, I will continue to homeschool my kids, I will quit most of my other jobs. I will promote the book that was published in April.

Not much.

I was at University for 8 weeks (except weekends) for a pre-college summer thing with two sets of two 3 hours classes a day. Other than that, I just explore the city and hung out with friends. I have my whole week off this week, so I'm doing nothing at all.

In Juli I divided my time between working, sleeping and going out. In August the working was replaced with working for my exams. In September I'll have another month in which I won't have to do anything but sleeping and going out and having fun (and maybe find a room to rent for the next school year, I'm so late with that :(). I also went to two festivals, maybe I'll go to a third one in September, I simply love festivals. In July and the first two weeks of August there wasn't a night I stayed at home, so that was cool too, and I'm only halfway!!!

I spent six weeks in Japan, traveling with friends for a bit over two weeks, and then traveling with family for a week, and spending the rest of my time in the real Kiryu. I also went to Maine for a family reunion for around a week. Got to go see a couple of baseball games with friends, and I'm going to that NSMeetup later this week.

I'm still unsure of what I'm doing come september, which is sorta unnerving. After initially planning to live in Maine for a year or so, it seems as if I'm going to get a job and take a few community college courses around here. Also, I need to apply for real colleges. Bleh.

I have decided on a college.. I think.

Summer will begin in about 3 months here mate. Some of us who use this site are Aussie too. That's right I'm in the land where the water goes backwards down the drain.

Like you count.

Like you count.

Where's my fried bread?

Where's my fried bread?
As though there'd be any left over.

i'm hungry!!! :(

Well, my last exam was on the 31st May, so I drank a fair bit around that period. We threw a monster houseparty a few days after that, which started with beer bongs and in the garden and ended with hippies, chavs and drum n bass, a combination I could happily never repeat. Then I went camping for 2 days in North Wales with various medics and some general friends, wherein I crashed my car (twice in one day, bloody wet grass), we met the two biggest whores I've ever met (and I've met whores) who had a threesome with my mate and exposed themselves for pics, and various people got so drunk they passed out at 2pm, 5pm and 7pm variously.

After that came some rather hazy time, more booze and various vaccinations for an upcoming trip, including a night in Lancaster Uni where some old school friends and I managed to get so drunk we were kicked out of their own college bar. Twice. Before nightfall.

Anyway, two days after that I went to Bangkok, then to Vietnam for Hanoi, Ha Long Bay, Hoi An, Nha Trang, a 5 day bike tour to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) via Da Lat, followed by Cambodia's Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and the close-by temples of Angkor Wat and its ilk (the biggest ancient civilisation complex in the world, also where Tomb Raider was filmed :p), then back to Thailand for the full moon party on Ko Pha Ngan, across to Ko Tao and back to Bangkok before going back home. Best 6 weeks of my life, probably, with far too much to go into detail about. However, I'm now a certified scuba diver, I know what it's like to be given rohypnol, I've been offered sex for a price more times than I care to recount and I've spent time in a foreign hospital. Good times :D

Since then I've spent a week shadowing various consultant oncologists at my local hospital (last week), I'm off to Leeds festival this weekend, I'm arranging some voluntary work at the local hospice, I'm trying to find an event to attend for Cancer Research UK and I'm going to apply for medicine come 1st September. All in all, pretty full summer :S

Nothing.

Worked at a day camp :rolleyes:
NSG and other internet shtuff..

You don't want to know what I did with my summer. I am, however, hoping to get a date. (In the immortal words of Aerosmith: Dream on)

I don't want to reminisce about this summer. I want to leave it behind me and never think of it again.

Worked at a day camp :rolleyes:
NSG and other internet shtuff..

Oh hey, did you work with a Michelle?

I don't want to reminisce about this summer. I want to leave it behind me and never think of it again.

Summer.

Its winter of here, so its more along the lines of planning for summer and not remembering.

Cricket on TV. Lots of cricket on TV.

:p

Summer.

Huh?

Huh?

Well, summer is a reoccurring season. Don't you think next summer will be a little reminder?

Over the summer, I got a new job. To look forward to (and dread) in September, is starting said job. I'm dreading it because I hate meeting new people. Summer's been kinda non-existent what with a) working, and b) living in England.

Well, summer is a reoccurring season. Don't you think next summer will be a little reminder?

You underestimate my power of suppression.

You underestimate my power of suppression.

I envy.

Over the summer, I got a new job. To look forward to (and dread) in September, is starting said job. I'm dreading it because I hate meeting new people. Summer's been kinda non-existent what with a) working, and b) living in England.

At least you got to meet me..

Neesika you made a lot better use of your summertime than I did.

So far I've nto done much at all so far, except for a couple short trips to Calif. At least one one of those trips I got some threesome action :p so that counts as making good use of a summer I suppose.

The rest of the year there will bring a couple more travels to Calif. One to LA for a travelling Cirque Du Soleil show and one to San Fran. to see my wifes sister who is recently divorced and to also check out the Ghirardelli chocolate festival.

Then in Oct we'll be hopefully hitting a masquerade fetish ball in Cali with some friends and in November a vacation to Sedona Ariz. for wifeys bday

The end is nigh, though for some working stiffs, the summer doesn't really mean much change in pace anyway. For the rest of us however, I hereby dedicate this thread. What have you done with your summer, and what do you have to look forward to (or dread) as September nears?

I organised an event for 25 foreign students for 2 weeks. I'm for 1 week in Romania right now. I worked for 1 week. +1 week of preparation of the 2 week event and some days of rest means that summer is over friday :(

Well I passed my exams and my driving test. I'm looking forward to September as I start university. Student lifestyle here I come!

Well, I made a "What did you do this summer" (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=534014) thread :p

And my highlights were:

This summer I've had a three week vacation, and I've visited Washington DC (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC01554.jpg), Baltimore (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC01665.jpg), Philadelphia (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC01691.jpg), New York (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC01779.jpg), Las Vegas (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC01880.jpg), Los Angeles (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC01943.jpg), Pismo Beach (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC01992.jpg) and San Fransisco (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC02021.jpg). It was a nice journey which also included a wedding and meeting two real-life Generalites :D Wohoo! :fluffle: (Ilie and Dubsy!)

Three weeks, and I'd like a couple more...

It was great to fly over New York - used Liberty Tours:
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC01756.jpg

It was actually my first ever helicopter ride, and I loved it!

As was my feelings towards NYC, it's a wonderful city. (Well, Manhattan is - I didn't venture outside of that borough...)

I wasn't there very long, but long enough to get to see the famous landmarks like the UN (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC01831.jpg), the Chrystler building (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC01741.jpg), Times Square (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC01744.jpg), and Wall street (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/Trip%20to%20the%20US/DSC01802.jpg) :D

Oh, and this is what 10$ will get ya:

If you're ever going to 'Vegas,
Never stay at the PINK FLAMINGO hotel and casino.

It's old, run-down, boring compared to the other casinos, the staff is lacking in friendliness and they'll try to swindle you from the moment you arrive.

There. That should be worth a buck ;)

Well I passed my exams and my driving test. I'm looking forward to September as I start university. Student lifestyle here I come!
Ooh, where you going to? Aside from being permanently skint, the student lifestyle really is the best one going :p

Sounds like a blast. Yeah I can't wait for classes to start again.

...though Quantum Mechanics is going to kick my ass.

Just consider it a rite of passage...One that really, really sucks.

If you're a really curious type, try expressing classical motion as a function of probabilities. It's a neat analogy that might give you a little insight into quantum motion... Or it may just be frustrating.

Anyway, it's not as hard as those damned diagonal sudokus.

I'm not at university until October:D

However, this summer, I've; -passed my driving test, and got a speeding ticket.

- got AAAAB at A level.

- got deported from Poland.

- worked an obscene amount of overtime at Somerfield.

- become a full time Morrissey/ Smiths addict.

Ooh, where you going to? Aside from being permanently skint, the student lifestyle really is the best one going :p

I'll be going to Roehampton. Great campus.