Summer winds down… but the party’s just started.

It’s odd how the last three months went by so quickly. How I wish I discovered my dance studio back in May, to have met Chris right when classes ended, and to have finished studying for the LSAT and the GRE well before the last days of August…

All of my summers begin with a grand plan that generally involves too much traveling, and not enough money making schemes to accomplish it. This was probably the only summer I spent earning as much money as I did. It’s too bad that most of it went to my summer housing; there’s NYC for you. I have no regrets, though. I couldn’t have spent this summer better than I did.

If I dedicated several hours of each day studying for standardized tests, it would have felt as though I never took a break from school; and with senior year fast approaching, the last thing I want is to burn out before graduation. So, I said fuck all else and rock on!

I always knew that live music was for me after I visited Iridium, but I never realized how much I’d enjoy it in the form of other genres. Nothing sounds better than 70s funk in a tiny venue or indie rock in a semi-large venue. NuBlu is my speakeasy music fix and the Bowery is likely to be my crazy one during the year.

It’s so hard to imagine now how I’ll transition back into the groove of schoolwork after such an eventful summer. I mean… there were evenings when I went to more than six bars and got home as “early” as 7:00 am. There’s no doubt that my weekends will be less intense once the semester begins.

I checked out the books that need for the upcoming fall semester and, so far, it’ll cost me a little more than $350 (but mind you, that’s only for one class… I’m taking five). Don’t get me wrong; I’m excited about the prospect of going back. Everything’s going to be determined before the end of December… whether I’m going to grad school, law school, or straight to work after my May. Yeah… it’s scary.

I’m really not sure with what I want to do at this point. I took the LSAT and didn’t do as well as I had wanted the first time around. I’m taking it again (despite the advice I received from several of my friends who told me that it would be a bad idea to go for it again). I’m going for the GRE so that I have a plan B. I guess I wouldn’t really mind taking a few years off from school. My employer won’t care if I took two years off to pay my student debts before going back to get my graduate degree.

On top of everything, I seem to have found myself in another relationship. I’m happy with it. In fact, a little too happy with it. What can I say? I found a really good guy… but I can’t seem to get over how good the whole situation is.

He’s introduced to a lot of his friends already; and I’m starting to get attached to a few of them. I’m a little too comfortable within his social circle… hopefully, that doesn’t overwhelm him. Although I’m not one to admit such things, I wouldn’t mind holding on to this one for a while… I’m pretty sure he’s worth the wait.