Summer's coming!!! What are YOU doing?

[Machias Banshee]

Hey y'all...

I'm just takin a break from homework--*curses evilly*--and just wondered what you collegiated and alike will be doing to enjoy your "vacation".

Unfortunately, I'm only gonna be on for another....oh, wow, less than two weeks. O.o After that i'm *hopefully* going to be getting a full-time position where I"m working...

so what about the rest of yas?

[Leo656]

I'll be lucky if I get a single Saturday off, let alone the rest of summer.

Dorms start in summer.

That means I'm gonna be breaking my ass carrying 200-pound furniture up four flights of stairs all day every day for two months so some spoiled rich kid yuppie larva college kids have brand new furniture to hide their weed in.

I HATE them.

[That Matt Guy]

What break? Summer is just work, work, work and more work for me.

[Cascadia]

This summer will be filled with classes, work, and riding my thoroughbred hunter/jumper whom I show in the state.

[kyabetsu]

WOW!!
LEO!!
you were GRUNGE CREW!!?!?!

uh... that's what MY school called it... but yeah... i worked grunge crew 2 summers in a row. 2 BUFF summers. i'm little but i've got MIGHTY GENES!! Entire Central American Economies are based on the lifting power of little old latin Grandmothers...



but yeah... that job ROCKED, because we had to clean the rooms too... and anything those little rich BRATS left behind just got thrown out. So if you WANTED IT, it was YOURS!

I got a 35 Jazz CD collection and a Discman, a gortex Louisiana State Park Warden's Jacket, a brandnew black mini-fridge, about $60 worth of quarters and loose change, some bookshelves, My PAYCHECK, and mad muscles...

which... i've since LOST over the winter (the muscles)... heh. whatcha gonna do?

but yeah. there's no elevators or airconditioning in the dorm i worked. The furniture was all stored in the basement and there were two buildings of 5 floors each.

oh the memories...


but yeah, this summer i'm headed home to my StepMother's farm and gonna learn to drive a tractor, build roadways through NC WILDERNESS that are well constructed enough to carry heavy farming equipment, help her start up her Labrador Kennel again, and generally get a tan and work outside.

...plow dem's fields... tote that bail... kya, put the GOAT OUT... kya the horsepasture's flooded... kya, go walk the MILE to the MAILBOX and get this week's bills, huh?...


it'll be a blast!

[Leo656]

Actually last summer I was fortunate enough not to be part of the team that removed the old furniture. I was part of the crew that had to bring the new stuff IN. So instead of just having gravity help me bring stuff down 4 flights of stairs, i had to fight gravity and bring it UP.

On the good side, I didn't have to handle all the dirty, semen-stained mattresses that were taken out of the dorms (no, I'm not kidding in the least, you college kids are f*cking PIGS). Also on the good side, I DID get to be part of the crew that destroyed the old furniture back at the warehouse. So I got to spend an entire day just smashing the hell out of desks, dressers and wardrobes and throwing the remains in a dumpster. Nothing beats taking a sledge to a desk and reducing it to splinters with the full approval of your boss.

Either way, my cardio is in the crapper right now and I don't know if I can handle 6-8 weeks of that carry-up crap again. Either way, I'm not looking forward to it. Sigh.

[J Legault]

I'll be turning 15 in the summer. Good Games Coming out, I need more GBA games. Sonic Adventure DX, Wario World, etc. I love the smell a fresh watermellow.

[Edge]

wanna know what i'll be doing
i'm working at an amusemnt park
ceadar point...man i'm gonna be busy

[Knuckles]

I think I'll be trying this radical new concept called "work." I dunno much about it, but I've heard interesting things. Damn adulthood--life was so much easier when I was a kid watching Ninja Turtles...wait...now I'm an adult watching Ninja Turtles. Hmm...my how we've come full circle.

[Mars-Chan]

School and work. Enough said. Bleah.

[ninjapizza]

I plan on seeing a large number of movies. X2, Hulk, Matrix, ect.

[Mars-Chan]

You're going to see X-Men 2 also?!?! ME TOO!!!! Logan's my boy!
Did you know that in the Hulk movie, the one that originally played TIH is going to make a cameo appearance?

[JameO]

I will probably just enjoying the summer and being glad that school is over for 2 months! PARTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

[Mars-Chan]

[Tokka-B]

That was pretty disgusting Leo....really, no one needed to hear that

[kyabetsu]

he's got a point though... if you've ever cleaned out dorm rooms after some of these wankers, then you'd TOTALLY know what he's talking about.

Having worked Janitorial Staff, you'd be AMAZED at the sh!t people leave for you to clean up. the following room resulted in a $200 fine for the slob involved, a bonus in my paycheck, and fodder for making posts like this where i can FIRMLY say, WITHOUT hesitation, that college students are some of the most slovenly things on the face of the planet.

UH... i wouldn't read any further than this if Leo's post offended....






the alltime WORST room that i ever had the misfortune to have to clean: had a pair of milk jugs out on the window sill. Inside them were the separated, desiccated, solids of 7 month old milk. Inside the closet was FULL of old,sweaty, dirty clothes, a trash can that had been buried, STILL FULL underneath all that, loads of papers and notes that had had Cola spilled on them at one point, and a Mosaic of stretched, dried Bubble gum on the inside of the door. The room itself was littered with paper and boxes and horded institute furniture. So much so that there was no sign of the floor, and when we FOUND the floor it was smeared with the small black dots of smashed Mouse droppings. Everything was covered in dust or something sticky. there were towels stretched over the stains on the mattress... STUCK to the mattress by the same stuff that had formed the stains. From the looks of it, this person had never HEARD of using sheets or washing his "towel" covers b/c they were COVERED with Hair. Private hair, if you get my meaning. Stuck with the same stuff that stuck the towels to the mattress and stained the mattress itself. The whole ROOM stank of B.O. It was so thick in the air that you could TASTE it even after you left the room. Then there were the HIDDEN surprises. Like lifting the random TRASH that coated the floor and finding used latex products. Or the used feminine hygenie objects that had NOT QUITE been put into the trash can and were on the floor AROUND the overflowing receptacle--amongst the papers and food trash that cleverly HID them until you had a HANDFULL of them. Or the old HALF a PIZZA hidden BEHIND the drawers INSIDE the Dresser.

now, factor in that this is a dorm room w/o central vents or airconditioning. It's mid-July. The window's have been shut, the room locked for about a MONTH by the time i'd cleaned enough of the rooms on my list to GET to it. So. The day i got there, it was well over 90 degrees in the shade. and the room smelled like a rendering plant.

i wanted to die.

and yes... i used gloves and a mask and bathed in fricking BOILING BLEACH after that.


that is why Leo is SO RIGHT. there are few things grosser than that.

okay. i'm done now.

[Machias Banshee]

Boy, gotta love dorms..

I live in a co-ed dorm at the moment. only one hallway of about six has females on it. At this very moment, theyre building a large addition to the female Res. hall. And I"m sorry to say, but I would rather deal here with the guys than a building full of girls.

I mean, we're going from a place that a lil bit of garbage and testosterone (but always has hot water cuz the guys only shower once a week), to a building FULL to the brim with bitchy, estrogen-high teeny-bopper-wannabe drama queens and the 'lovely' smell of feminine hygeine gone to hell (not to mention the fact that you have to get up at 4 AM to get a hot shower!!!)! Its worse than the guys...At least the GUYS flush when theyre done!



Boy do i want a single...

[Jephael]

Is it just me, or did summer seem to have a better meaning when we were kids?

[Machias Banshee]

YES IT DID...!

*sigh* I remember jsut walking through our property, picking blueberries and looking at the robin's nests. Going swimming up at the lake, and watching the sunset reflect off the water. Staying up late with friends and playing "ninja" and "hide from the lights", sneaking through the grass, trying to get the burrs off your shorts, while trying to avoid the carlights. Fishing on the docks, fighting like heck only to see a 6 inch perch...

Going to the amusement park, and being sick from all the sugar and the rides. Sitting in front of your fan all night, and then piling the blankets on when it got cold in the morning. The barbecues with family and friends that lasted long into the evening.

*sigh* i miss it all....

[DarthRaphael]

I voted "Vacation? Phf, yeah right...I hate you kids!!!" - sucks being an adult.