Well, after three months of almost no internet or rinkworks I'm back from summer. One of the most exhausting summers of my life. We moved, my sister started college, my mom got a new job, I got a summer job, it was crazy.

OK, summer started with me leaving Elmira college and going north, the Saranac Lake, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains. This is were I went to high school for three years, and were I left to go to college. It was home. But at the end of the previous summer my father got a new job at UNC Chapel Hill. He had been living there since October while I Mom (who was the principal of a small strugling Catholic Elementary school) and my sister remained in the North Country so my sister could graduate high school (at the end of the third year). Well I got back and my sister's last year of school still had a week to go. I had to start packing my room. What fun!(in a way that isn't fun at all) In the middle of the week both sets of Grandparents arrived to watch Sara (my sister) graduate. We arrived very early for the ceremony due to limited seating. It was very nice, despite graduating early she was still third in the class. (Show off) The next day we had a big graduation party, her friends, the grandparents, lots of people. Then we had to clean up. Two days later was moving day. We don't like to space events out. After they pack us (two days) we loaded up the few things we told them not to take in to a U-Haul, piled into our cars and drove to North Carolina and moved into the dinky little apartment my dad had been living in. We wouldn't get the rest fo our stuff back till we got a house. My sister didn't come down with us, she stayed up north with friends for two weeks then flew down. I imeditly started to try to find a job, and couldn't. Trying to find a summer job in the middle of summer stinks like a three day old
road-killed skunk. My mom found it easier. There is a large need for teachers in North Carolina, she was hired at a brand new school. My birthday in on July 17 (I'm 20 now)and my parents took me to see X-Men. Awsome movie, I loved it, Wolverine was perfect. As a fan boy I was pleased. Also on video I saw Being John Malcovich (well done but weird), Man in the Moon (Wow, Jim Carry CAN act!), Talented Mr. Ripply (eh, I've been to were the filmed it, the acting was good, I just didn't like the story). I also saw the new, modern version of Hamlet (Bill Murry makes a great Polonius, but a lot of the Shakespear got cut or rearanged, the "Alas poor Yorik" speach was cut). Finally on my birthday I got a call back from the UNC Chaple Hill Student Book Store. I had a summer job as a temp, shelving books, helping people find books, that kind of thing. The job payed well, $7.83 per hour. As a fring benifit I got to read comic book trade paper backs and graphic novels on my breaks, in the regular (non-text book) book store down stairs. I read Kingdome Come (excellent), The Kingdome (why did they make this?), Golden Age (a graphic novel takeing the WWII era heroes of DC comics through the paranio of the Cold War 50s, very good), Dr. Mid-Nite (a modern retake on the WWII hero, very cool), JLA: New World Order (first four issues of the current JLA run, good action), JLA: The Nail (DC Universe with out Superman, some great scenes) JLA: Year One (a modern look at the JLA of the 60s, very well done) DC One Million (a cross over collection with only the important issues, pretty good but not great) Final Night (lame), Green Lanter: Fear Itself (three generation of GL verses a Lovecraftian monster, each chapter opens with the eye in the pyramid from the one dollar bill, very cool story, art could use some work), and most of Starman: Times Past (a collection of stand alone stories, I liked it a lot, too bad I didn't get a chance to finish).
Also over the summer I read the Illuminatus! Trilogy, Masks of the Illuminati, and Schödinger's Cat Trilogy. I am now very paranoid.Fnord.
We mostly finished moveing into the house, the room farthes from done, mine. Oh well, I guess it can wait for Thanksgiving.
The only really summery thing I did was the day before I arrived back at college. After driving for 10 hours with my Dad we stopped over at my grandparents house in Williamsport PA. First stop was the Comic Castle to use the birthday present I got from the Grandparnets (a $100 certificate!) I still have 20 bucks on it for when I come by in November. When we got back from that my father and I were dragged to the river to try out my cousins new jet ski, and that was fun for a bit but soon it looked like it would rain so we headed home.
The next I arrived at college. This year I have my own TV/VCR combo, mini fridg, and car. The car in a 1993 Chevrolet Convertable, a red convertable.

So, that was my summer. What do ya think?

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