Happy Birthday, Linsey!

Linsey turns 24 today. Turning 24 was rather momentous in my life because it symbolized my official entrance into adulthood. Look at it this way. You graduate from college when you're 22, and you never feel like an adult in college because you're too busy experiencing a kind of lifestyle that is different to anything you'd lived before and anything you'll experience afterward. You just spent four years of your life sleeping in until 10, going to a class or two, eating lunch--a long lunch, then taking a nap, maybe you have another class, and then you eat dinner, and then you putz around until you eventually fall asleep into the wee hours of the morning. Once you graduate from this fantasy world, you're expected to do something with your life, but you're still 22 and don't feel adult enough to be an adult. 23 comes along, and you convince yourself that it's still you're early 20s. You can push off adulthood for at least another year. But then 24 comes and you realize that you're officially entering your mid-20s. And although your childhood ended at 20, you've only just realized that a) it's time to grow up and b) life will never be the same again. So Linsey, let me officially welcome you into adulthood. Have fun with Duran Duran tonight. My childhood babysitters would be jealous.

As for me, I'm headed to the library to escape the insufferable heat that's plaguing the Midwest right now. I moved here from California because I wanted cold weather. Well, Fall, Winter, and Spring in SW Ohio are gorgeous. Summer? I'd rather be in California--plus there are beaches in CA. Rather than pay for air conditioning, I'm going to camp out in King Library, work on my thesis, and avoid the world wide web. Let's just hope my car gets me there and gets me back to my apartment.