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Doctah J's Random Thoughts (Part 2)
Things I learned this summer:
- No matter how much you love a place, it will never be or feel the same when you come back. Especially if it is in New Jersey.
- Quebecois are people to, no matter how much they yell at you in French that you cannot use the bathroom in a Subway sandwich shop.
- The best concert experience will inevitably be in the rain, especially if it's at Warped, and the band performing is Madina Lake.
- You will set ambitious goals for yourself, and you will inevitably not complete them to your satisfaction. Because...well...it's summer. But, you will accomplish those goals... by Christmas.
- Some summer movies will not live up to your expectations, and that is ok. That's why you have friends to complain with about those movies.
- Tourists are evil, but a necessary evil. Without them, my town would not have gotten its own Best Buy. But, they still need to learn how to drive.
- The incoming freshmen will be more pampered than you were. You just need to build yourself up by saying "I never needed a 27 inch flat screen LCD HD TV or a Wii/PS3/Xbox 360 to make friends and influence people my freshmen year."
- Some singers will not be as interesting when you meet them as their hit single makes you think they will be. Just chalk it up to stress...*cough*
- Twelve hour road trips through Canada are the best bonding experience ever. Especially when you can have heated discussions about which country does the Smartie better.
- Maine has the hold on the best coffee anywhere (a combination of Dunkin Doughnuts, Tim Hortons, and the Evil Green Empire.) Canada has the hold on the best tea anywhere (a product of their closer ties to Great Britain than the States.)
- Not everyone will know about a very popular British sci-fi show. But don't let it stop you from petting David Tennant on Series 2 and 3 DVD covers in every store in Canada. It is still OK to do that.
- You might actually grow to like the tourist mecca that you live in. Especially when the colonial interpreters go shopping directly following work, still dressed in their colonial garb.
