The One with My Summer Summary

Wow. For three months of nothingness, that went by pretty fast. It seems like it was only yesterday when I was finishing up my exams, looking forward to my summer freedom. A quarter of the year later, throw in a couple of parties, a bunch of friends-time and a lot of chilling, and BAM! I'm less than a week away from going back to Uni. Okay, bullet point time!

• I've nicknamed this past summer 'The Summer of Storms,' both because of the funny nickname we've given one of our friends, and the fact that the weather's been so FIZZUCKED for the last three months! One day it's ridonculously hot and sunny, then the next day it's PISSING down. A lot different to the kind of summer I'm used to: three months of "FUCK, TURN UP THE AIRCON!" weather.
  
• Wow, we only went to the beach ONCE this summer. =| Probably thanks to a combination of laziness and messed up weather. Then again, we DID get to go to Jamberoo, which was fun as hell. Oh, and thanks to Reyes, we got to swim at the Newbury Clubhouse whenever he was free, which was a pretty sweet deal.
  
• We got back into wrestling in a big way this summer. SmackDown parties every other day, wrestling on mattresses/in the pool/wherever we can.
  
• I'm finally making an effort in moving on. Well, I made an effort before. I just didn't make much of an effort when I started slipping back into it. ROFL! On the serious tip, it was good to get it over and done with kinda early in the summer, so that I could still enjoy the majority of my holiday.
  
• I finally finished FFXII! It took me (almost exactly) a whole year, 130+ hours worth of gameplay. I felt bad about not playing it, seeing as I got a bit discouraged once I got stuck. But then, I started to get into the groove of things. Before I knew it, I was sucked right back in, so I made an effort to buckle down and get it done. After about a month or so straight of playing it until 5-6AM, it now stands as my favourite Final Fantasy game.
  
• I can't believe I only got drunk a grand total of TWICE this summer. Then again, one of those times, THIS happened. So maybe that was enough drunkenness for the whole season. Also, it's not like summer's ever really been a big drinking season for me. That's what Uni Semesters are good for!
  
• Newbury basketball sessions every Wednesday! And, when we were really amped, on weekends as well! Thanks to these, and the aforementioned swimming sessions at the Clubhouse, Newbury kinda became my home-away-from-home this summer.
  
• I got a new laptop this summer! I don't exactly know why, seeing as my old one was completely serviceable, but my guess is that my folks wanted the old laptop for themselves, so they bought me an updated one for myself. Umm, sweet. No complaints here.
  
• Karl, Matt and I were supposed to run regularly throughout the summer. The first time we did it, we VOWED to make the running sessions a weekly thing, to try and get in better shape. Two months later, we went for our second group run. Awesome.
  
• Wow, I only bought ONE pair of shoes this summer, and NO shirts. Weird.
  
• I've been too lazy to keep myself up-to-date with all the blog sites I usually frequent. I think I needed to take a break, seeing as I wasn't really in the mood to buy anything this summer. I do, however, expect this to change once the need to procrastinate kicks in during the upcoming Semester.
  
• Songs to remember summer by: One-Winged Angel; Those Who Fight Further; Theme of the Empire; Silence Before the Storm (geez, Final Fantasy overkill); The Archers' Bows Have Broken; Paris, Tokyo; Gold Watch; Bizarre Love Triangle; Secret Heart (Feist and Ron Sexsmith); Maybe This Christmas; All This Love; Knights of Cydonia; Reptilia; Supermassive Black Hole; White Rabbit; Superstar (both from Lupe Fiasco and The Carpenters); There She Goes (The La's and Sixpence); A Bad Dream; Reason Why; Hold You In My Arms; Stolen; Running Up That Hill; Worn Me Down; Gatekeeper; One Evening; All Kinds of Time; Drama; Party Life; Success; Fidelity; Apres Moi; Better; It's Gonna Be Me; Valerie; Gimme More
  
• Overall, it's been a really good holiday. I've still never had a job, and I pretty much did nothing but chill for three months, but that's how I wanted it to be. As long as I got to hang out with my friends, play a lot of basketball, play a lot of video games and spend time with my family. This summer was pretty damn good.

Thus, as another sun-soaked (well, it was half-sunny, half-soaked) season fades away, it's time to look ahead to...ahh, crap! Uni until late June! NOT COOL! Wake me up when July comes around! Anyways, over and out.

- marty..

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