So today it might have hit me...I will be returning to school for my final year of college in 11 days. It probably hit me because I was looking at my tuition statement and silently crying to myself. But while I'm kind of bummed about being a senior (and having no effin idea what I want to do when I graduate), I am excited to be back on campus. There are so many reasons why I'm excited to leave home and even more reasons I'm excited to go back to school (none of them have to do with class). So like everything else in my life I'm going to make a list. These are the top 10 reasons I'm happy summer is over and its back to school time.
1. End of slavery! So apparently my parents didn't get the memo that slavery has been over since 1865. The amount of cooking and cleaning I do for my family on a daily basis without any help is appalling. Making a meal for one will be a welcome treat come fall.
2. Out with the old and in with the new! I finally get to ditch the guys I've been trying to avoid all summer. Theres no better excuse as to why I can't chill than...oh I'm kind of hundreds of miles away. Sorry....
3. Back to school shopping! Yes going back to school for me means that I must go shopping for my apartment and myself...oh and probably buy a pencil or two. Whatever I'm shopping for, it doesn't matter. I love to buy things.
4. No more sober Wednesdays! I've had my share of drunk fun this summer but not nearly as much as I do during the school year. Going out in South Florida is a difficult process that requires communication and planning. I will need at least a days notice and then have to worry about who is driving. In the fall...ten minutes notice and I'll be dressed and headed out the door.
5.No more sharing! Not only will I get to go back to my apartment where I have my own beautiful bathroom...I don't have to constantly worry about my dad eating all of my cereal and stealing the leftovers I bring home from restaurants. You have no idea how upsetting it is to want to eat your left over sweet and sour chicken only to see the empty container in the garbage.
6.Freedom! No longer will I have to trick the security guards at my gate and then sneak out of my house. I didn't realize how living in a gated community would impede me lying to my parents. Even though I've mastered the art of sneaking in and out of my neighborhood...every time I do it my palms get all sweaty and my heart beats all fast. Soon leaving my house at 1am and returning after the sun comes up will no longer be a problem.
7. Junk food! My house is the most depressing place on earth. No candy, no soda, no cookies, and basically nothing unhealthy. The first week of being home sans pizza, coke, and sour patch kids resulted in severe withdrawal symptoms. After 2 months I lost 10 freaking pounds. I'm not complaining about that but it would be nice to be able to have a cookie every now and then. No more lectures about how french fries are bad for me.
8. Cell phone service! For some reason my cell phone acts psycho when I'm back home. Lately I've been spending my nights talking on my house phone instead of my very expensive cell phone that doesn't even work in my bedroom. I haven't had to talk on the damn house phone since middle school. It will be nice not to have to curse out my phone every time one of my texts don't send.
9. Privacy! If my parents bust in my room one more time I will snap. No longer will I get chewed out for locking my door or sleeping til 1pm. And when someone comes to the gate to pick me up I won't have to go through the awkwardness of my step mom asking me if that guy is my new boyfriend. I won't have a house full of people in my business at all times.
10. The what are you going to do with your life question! Its like when you are a senior in college everyone feels like they have the right to ask you what you are going to do after you graduate. Hell...if I knew, I'd gladly tell you. 75% of my summer has been spent listening to my parents, and my parents friends, and my grandma lecture me about growing up and becoming independent and blah freakin blah. My parents are way easier to ignore over the phone while I'm watching TV and filing my nails.
Its my senior year. The last year of the best years of my life...I better make this shiz count! It shall be EPIC.
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