It's days like these...

...that I am reminded that it is, technically, still summer vacation. It's 80 degrees out and sunny. I didn't get out of my pajamas until noon. I've been watching movies on my couch in my basement since 9 this morning. At the same time, I've been doing summer AP English homework that's due at midnight tonight. Not that 'll stay up until midnight, seeing as I have to wake up for week 2 of band camp tomorrow morning at 6 a.m.

My last band camp ever.

It being my senior year and all, I know I'll have this tendency to be overly sentimental about things because, let's face it, I'm a sentimental person. That having been said, I have no idea whether to be super sad or super excited that this is my last camp...Gonna have to think about that one for a while...Might as well enjoy it. If I don't, to some extent, I'll regret it later...

It's also days like these that I realize how old I am.

That sounds weird.

Relatively speaking, though, I'm not old. Not really. I'm 17 years young and, hopefully, have many more years ahead of me. However, as a part of the aforementioned movie marathon, I've been watching a lot of movies that came out and were popular when I was about 8 or 9 (Holes, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius). I was still in elementary school when these movies came out. It's kind of interesting watching movies that have previews for films that had 2003 release dates. It's nice that films can transport a person to a time when things were much simpler for them. I feel special, like I am in a small and somewhat elite group of people, for remembering a time when these characters were great figures in our lives...and yet they're now they're collecting dust in the backs of our minds.

It's days like these that I still feel old, since I know the coming months for me will bring things that kids even two or three years my junior don't even have to worry about: senior presentations, graduation, getting into college, finding money for college...


But I guess it's days like these that I begin to appreciate the time off and being lazy...'cause I know it won't last forever.