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there have been a myriad of commercials promoting the consumerism that is "back to school"...

I watched and wondered why they would be airing these commercials so soon?

Actually, I wondered why they were even on at all - you know, because I have not been in school for some time now, and everything obviously revolves around me...

anyhow, it occurred to me, somewhere between bites of my pizza, that for the youngsters school starts in a few weeks!

whoa.

that means the summer is almost over. The herald for the end of the summer is not the autumnal equinox, but the first day of school.

summer vacation was always a high point of the year. no studying, no homework, no teachers, no curfews... well, not really...

it cannot be said that you cannot learn whilst you are not in school...

nope, you can learn bunches...

I learned how to start fires and get away with it...

although the first bed on fire incident sort of did not go anywhere near the land of slick... of course, that fire was unplanned (so you can stop laughing now)

I also learned how to remove the gun powder from bullets (yes, I was not a model child... but I never claimed to be)

and climbing the house without a ladder was always fun, although the getting down part... probably not one of my brighter ideas...

in any case, there is no more summer vacation for me... well, unless I become a teacher...

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do teachers have summer jobs or do they get paid over the summer?

I knew a few teachers that got jobs as bartenders... actually, scratch that...

I knew a few bartenders that were teachers normally... I did not actually know them as teachers, because our relationship was based on me requesting a drink, them pouring that drink, and me putting it on my tab...

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I actually do not know if I could handle being a teacher - as honorable a profession it is - I do not know if I possess the required amount patience, or rather endurance of patience (because I can be patient for a while, but 180 days? yeah... pushing it.)

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I digress...

this summer has actually been very cool... (cool as in temperature, although it has been a rather good few months, in general) but there really have only been a handful of days that actually required me to turn on the air conditioner...

perhaps that is why I did not notice the summer disappear.

well... it is August now. I learned something new, although implementation is a ways off... but I think I will be able to chat on AIM again in a month or so... I just need to set up a box at my house...

which means that i will have to get broadband...

but that will have to wait until after the honeymoon...

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In the old days people wanted their marriage to start on a sweet note. It was therefore customary for newlyweds to drink mead for a month. Mead was a drink made from honey. The "moon" refers to the period of thirty days or one month that the couple was expected to drink the mead. After the first month, the couples came face to face with reality; they realised that their affection, like the moon, would wax and wane.

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not if I can help it...

besides... the story is just not true. The first appearrance of the word was in the 16th century. The honey is a reference to the sweetness of a new marriage, and the moon is not a reference to the lunar-based month, but rather a bitter acknowledgement that this sweetness, like a full moon, would quickly fade

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