So perhaps you have noticed, here at www.xanga.com/aliceclaire, how the recent posts have not mentioned children at all? No funny stories? No RANTS IN ALL CAPS? No tragi-comic renderings of my heart? There has been a reason, and the reason is SCHOOL IS OUT FOR THE SUMMER.

It is a very good reason.

However, I have not had so little structure and so much free time in my life in a very long time, and I have gotten throughly bored, friends, thoroughly and absolutely. Today I pumped myself up and ran a million errands and started planning for next year and have a to-do list a dozen items long and am perfectly thrilled. I am off to Staples to buy a planner so I can plan my days more thoroughly because I want to DO THINGS. I'm tired of lazing around and messing with the internets and reading novels. I want to do my grad school reading, I want to get my car tires replaced, I want to practice guitar, I want to find children's books at the library, I want to swim at the Georgetown pool. And? I will.

Summer is, as it turns out, pretty sweet.

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