There is NOTHING like summer!

I love summer.

Today has been the most amazingly simple, and still most amazing day. Although it may seem humdrum to some people, it was the day that I have been dreaming of since starting the hectic life of being a law student.

Without a legal summer job, my days have been pretty average, consisting of sitting on a couch and watching all the interesting shows on TV. However, although seemingly boring and simple, today was amazing.

I woke up late this morning; I got out of bed around 9:30. After getting out of bed, I had a bowl of Rasin Bran Crunch and a glass of juice. After finishing my late breakfast, I sat on the parlor couch and read. I have been reading Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" for a couple of days now. I spent a few hours reading, and then decided I felt like watching "Sex and the City," particularly the "Secret Sex" episode, and cleaning.

While cleaning my friend Brandon, who just moved to Detroit to begin law school during the summer semester, called me in panic. "What do I need to know . . . reading is taking me soooo long." Practicing my peer mentor skills for next fall semester, I advised him to get a commercial outline and then skim through the cases. I explained "IRAC," and told him the rules were what he really needed to learn for the exam. Then I honestly told him law school sucks, but that if you work hard, you will party even harder at the end of the semester, and it will be fantastic. He thanked me for my advise, and said he loved me. I explained this is the reason law students are so close; only we truly understand the pain of law school.

After getting off the phone, I remembered that I had a seminar for swim lessons, so I can get my raise, and had to rush off to the office. I showed up 30 minutes late, but luckily, I have good companionship with my boss, and he had no problem with my delay. I am in this training session with one of my best friends from high school, Gwen, and the two of us wrote notes to each other during the boring instructor videos. I had to stay afterwards to review five minutes of an audio video on addressing fears.

After swim practice, I called my friends to see what was going on for Sunday night. Baker was watching a TV show with Jason, his best friend. Andre was having dinner out of town with his parents. Everyone else let their answering machines pick up.

The 30 minute drive home was relaxing. I cranked up my stereo, rolled down the windows, opened the sunroof, and listened to my mixed CD while driving in the warm summer sunset. Pure bliss. I wanted to drive to I-4, and ride through Flordia.

When I got home, I opened a bottle of beer and plugged in my electric guitar. I played "Turn the Page," and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" for about an hour. Then I put "Sweet Child of Mine" in my CD player and turned it on repeat, while opening a bottle of wine and continued reading "The Sun Also Rises."

To me, days like this are what makes life worthwhile. I had so much time just for me, to do the things I love to do. Today had cumulated into doing what I love to do best; here I sit, still listening to "Sweet Child of Mine" on repeat, as Ernest Hemingway states in "The Sun Also Rises," I am "a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless," and I am doing one of my favorite things in the world- writing.

So now I make my way back to another glass of wine, and reopen my book. Ahh, there is nothing like summer.