Finally, summer is here. Well at least in terms of my allergies. Pretty much all of the pollen is gone & my eyes have only been itchy once today! Most of the trees have their leaves & I'm just waiting for the cicadas to come out. Freshman year I thought they were just really loud grasshoppers- until I saw a dead one on the sidewalk. I thought I had been transported to a foreign country- I had never seen an insect that large & scary looking- only in tropical places.
But yes today was a great day for me. I was able to sit outside without having to clutch onto my glasses & eye drops. It can only go up from here! It's even warm back home, my mom told me that she saw the first buds on the trees a few days ago. Alas, summer has come to us again! This is the best part of the year in my estimation. This is when concerts begin to happen outside, cook out season is beginning, baseball games, the sounds of lawn mowers replace the snow blowers, snow boots put away and bathing suites are pulled out. This is when all our coffee makers begin bubbling for exam week, caffine is a must at ever meal & boxes make their way to our dorm room floors to be filled with souvenirs of the past school year. It's sad to see my room half naked, no photos or posters on the wall, half of my clothes gone, but then, I remember that I get to go home & not worry about school work for a few months & I'm suddenly not quite as sad, because now I get to read as many books as I chose, & I can read whatever I want with out having it cut into school work.
Yes, yes, summer is quite a marvelous time.