i know it's not exactly normal to start off a post in an all-caps-yelling-style, but for realz. i feel like it was just the spring and my nose was constantly red and dripping. now instead of my nose being red and dripping, my cheeks are red from the blasted heat and my body is dripping from sweat at all hours. cute, right?
welcome to north carolina, where comfortable body temperatures come to die.
however, this summer has already been a summer of firsts for a few things in the life of megan and i want to share them with you. for better or worse, here they are.
1. the full-time job: so i've had a full-time job since october, but this is the first summer that i've had one of these things. working full days during the summer months has its tough moments, but when it's daylight outside until late AND i get that full-time paycheck in my account every two weeks, the tough moments have a way of not seeming so bad.
2. no camp cheerio: this is the first summer (minus the summer when i was 16 and i was on a mission trip ... regardless of what any of my friends may tell you) that i won't be going up to camp cheerio, even if for a brief visit.
3. ballet class: i took photography last summer and had quite a ball learning something new. this summer i've enrolled in ballet! while it's beginning ballet, it's actually quite advanced for someone that is as clumsy as i am. however, every thursday i go and point my feet in unnatural ways and turn out my hips until i'm afraid they'll pop out leaving me disfigured. and while i've been so sore (and confused) i've shed some tears, i do love it. even if i don't get it. and even if i fall over sometimes. there's just something cool about learning something that some of my friends do so effortlessly, in addition to doing something that's graceful, elegant, and structured (three things i am not). more power to those of you who beast the art of ballet.
4. durham bulls: if anyone were to ask, i would have told them i love the durham bulls baseball team. however, it's a little known fact that until tonight, i hadn't actually ever gone to a game. i love baseball so i knew i would love it, but this fact was finally confirmed tonight. complete with reuniting with a few old camp friends, my introduction to the bulls was superb!
anyways, those were just four of my firsts. i hope your summer has been a summer of wonderful firsts as well! if not, don't worry. there are a quite a few so-humid-you-could-die days left in north carolina's extended summer. go out and do something you've never done before. you'll be glad you did.
