Friday, August 27, 2010

Laptop: fixed, Hair: shaved off, Living: in a barn; summer

It is so satisfying when a few months of guessing how to get your laptop to boot it finally just decides to work (right in time to let me do my summer homework on it). Also my laptop sticker collection has expanded (I ran out of room on the top for all intents and purposes).

So maybe a little more than a month back I decided to get a Mohawk that Ryan Hallaran gladly etched into my head, however shortly after during Henley I was shaved by a good number of the guys crew team, so all my hair is sitting in Canada. I plan to not cut it until spring assuming it doesn't grow to look ridiculously horrible uncut. 

And then the defining fact of my summer, The Barn. We decided to rent out our house for track season and didn't have anyone currently renting the other side of our house so we moved in there at the beginning of the summer, then three days later we got people to rent it so after moving all of my things once into another house, within three days I had to move it all again into our barn. Living in the barn has bean, well, an experience in many ways. First off there is no real good bathroom in the barn so I've had to make constant trips out to Stewart's to use the facilities and to the YMCA to take showers. Also there is a garden hose for water, we have been sleeping on blowup beds, and about three electrical outlets that work, one of which taken up by a fridge, and no internet (making me thankful for the data capabilities of my smart-dumbphone). I've been stuck in the barn mainly because I decided fatefully this year to take health over the summer and row over the summer binding me to Saratoga. Now that I've finished summerschool health with a 98 (I'm pissed I didn't get the 99, because it was gradequick's fault not mine, not being able to do fractional grading points) I'm down at my grandparents house in Pennsylvania where I finally have fixed my computer and brought it to a new glory, for anyone who has ever had to re-set up a crashed PC this site is a huge time saver: http://ninite.com/

I'm sixteen now and with permit attempting to learn to drive a stick (not easy). Thanks to Sophie Breitbart for reminding me I have a blog and an internet connection simultaneously and am thus able to post now. I wonder when we are all going to get our schedules this year, I'd like to know mine, mainly so I can know which portion of the summer homework to postpone more.

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