(well, OK, it was neigh onto 80 degrees today, so I guess it’s a stretch to say that summer’s GONE)
(Oh, and the title of today’s post comes from Leonard Cohen’s song “I Can’t Forget” from his amazing album “I’m Your Man”)
So where the hell did summer go??? Huh??? One minute it’s Memorial Day and then twenty five minutes later it’s almost Labor Day. WTF?
I have also come to the realization that if I had it all to do over again, I would have dropped out of school sometime in the third grade. Yes, really. Ugh. Just the thought of having to start ALL over again EVERY year just makes me want to go back to bed and I’m 10 years out of college now. (And already in bed, technically speaking). New friends, new school sometimes, new teachers, new lessons. Urrrrgh.
I was lucky in elementary school, honestly. From the second grade until the fifth grade I was in a special program for nerds losers geeks social misfits smart kids and the Indianapolis Public School system kept us all in the same class year after year. That made it easy to figure out who my friends would be because they were the same as they were last year. And the cute boys? Same as they were last year. And the ubiquitous pretty/stuck up girl? Yep, she was there too. (And she wasn’t ME, by the way – I was pretty stuck up, but not PRETTY and stuck up. Really!).
The irony is that I was ghetto elementary school smart but not regular elementary school smart. We moved after the fifth grade and while I was in the best reading class I got kicked out of the better math and science classes because I just couldn’t hack it. Junior high is tough. I think maybe there should be an entire year where you just get used to changing classrooms, opening your locker and dealing with the stuck up girls, without having to learn anything. Education baby steps.