Since summer began it’s been an almost non-stop party at our house. Friends have graduated and find themselves without homework to do or exams to study for, some are moving soon and are wanting to hang out as much as they can while they’re still here, then there’s birthdays and graduation parties and gatherings — it all adds up to me savoring a few hours alone at home when I can get them. I know it’s gotten hectic when we all start meeting at the bar on Monday nights when we’ve already been drinking the weekend away at each other’s homes. Research? What research? I’ve still got four weeks!

I’m sort of half-and-half on the socializing: the good is being surrounded by friends and the bad is waking up on a Tuesday or Thursday with a hang-over and Spanish class looming in an hour. One solution is to stop drinking during the week. I always have the option of not drinking, this I know, but then my tolerance for whiskey would disappear and I’m beginning to like my new tolerance.

I’ll need to refer back to this post in mid-September, when I’m burried in class work and unable to have a social life.