A summer in review & a countdown to Utah

Days till I am in Utah: 5.

Concerts I hope to attend before school even starts: 1. Since Passion Pit cancelled their show on the 9th I'll suppose I'll have to settle for Iron & Wine instead.

Days left of work: 4. Including today. Sadly I have work this afternoon/evening so my last Saturday at home is way less fun that it should be.

Times I'll have seen Megan before going back: 2. Hopefully. Tomorrow we're supposed to rendezvous for a little nature walk down by the lake.

Days till I see Jordan: no less than 5 but probably/hopefully/maybe no more than 8. We'll see.

Times I've eaten at Out & Out: 2.

Seasons of Grey's Anatomy I've watched: 4 1/2.

Pairs of obnoxious colored pants I now own: 2. Neon yellow and royal blue.

Letters I've sent and received: 3.

Wedding related mail, including announcements and thank you notes, I've received: 4.

Wedding receptions I'll attend in the weeks before school starts: no less than 2 but no more than 4.

Friday Fish Fry dinners I've eaten: 3.

New shoes I've gotten: 2. A beautiful pair of Birkenstocks and also navy blue Rocket Dog flats.

Taco Bell runs I've made by myself: 3.

Text messages Jordan and I have sent and received: I don't think I'm underestimating when I say thousands. (I shouldn't be quite so proud of this as I am.) My life pretty much only consists of going to work and talking to him.

Hours of YouTube I've watched: I dare not even try to estimate. I feel like every summer it increases greatly, though.

Baseball games I attended: 0. This number makes me real sad.

And I suppose that's all for now. I'm going back to my YouTube and my texting and my snacking now. I hope you're all enjoying my blogging every in August. I always do, even if some days it's hard to come up w/ something to write. Basically, the summer has been pretty quality though a little more strange than summers of years gone by. See you soon, Utah kids.

Last YouTube video I watched: The Debt - Julia Nunes

On the naming of inanimate objects

I've been talking (read: texting) with Jordan this morning (as always) and we're talking about the different names we've come up w/ for objects in our lives; as in, we give real human names for everyday objects.

I know plenty of people that do this and it's strangely fun to do. My friend Cameron has a longboard named Guinevere. Kate's new car is named Basil. (Okay, so that's not quite a real human name but it's still named.)

My belongings are pretty much exclusively named for characters from books and TV shows. I think my favorite name of a thing I have is my phone, which is named Colin after the main character in An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. My very lovely friend Kate's full name is Katherine, so I made her read that book. From that point on, for whatever reason, her phone was Hassan, named for Colin's best friend, and my phone was Colin. It goes a bit beyond the phones though since we've actually addressed letters to each other using those names. (We boh quite like that book.) At this point I cannot even remember why we gave our phones those names. I wish I did. It's a shame I didn't blog back then.

Well, I should probably finish up this post so it gets posted on time. Since I get home from work at 11 little time is left to write at night, which is when I enjoy blogging the most. I now have five days of work left. It was almost only four but I got scheduled to work on Saturday. It's not a terrible thing because who doesn't need extra money like that but it's still a bit disappointing since I don't get to hang out w/ Megan and Kate. I try to stay positive about working on Saturdays by thinking of what I'll do w/ the extra money. It's really just going towards food and rent and textbooks but I like to think it's really for awesome road trips and other adventures.

I'll be back in Utah in only SIX DAYS. Time sure flies when all I do is work and talk to Jordan.

Last YouTube video I watched: The Invisible Man

Heading back to Utah

In just about one week I will be making the journey back to Utah for my junior year of college. It's incredible to think I've already done this twice before. I am an upperclassman. I will have more time in college than I have left in college. That's a very strange thought to process. In fact, it does not compute.

As I try to even wrap my head around returning to school, I think back to when I was doing it for the first time. It's gotten to the point where I can't imagine a life without college, most especially without the people I've met while attending. Do you guys go through that? You try to imagine what your life would be like without certain people, without having gone through certain events or trials . . . And you just can't. College is a time in which you meet the people who will be your friends for the rest of your life. It's an even more formative time than high school is. There are some friends from my childhood, from high school, who I will know for the rest of my life but when it comes down to it, the majority of my lifetime friends will have come from university days.

Perhaps my favorite part about preparing for school is getting all of my pictures together. I'm known in my group of friends as the one who has a gigantic photo wall. It's my pride and joy of decoration. I can spend hours putting pictures up, looking through my photo album, deciding the pattern and how things are arranged. I almost spend weeks doing it. I even change out photos during the school year. Tomorrow I'm picking up my prints for my new wall. I always make additions after each school year, inevitably making the wall bigger and bigger. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Here's my freshman year photo wall. This is nothing compared to what it was sophomore year.

Last YouTube video I watched: Gorilla eats girl