Savoring Summer while it lasts

Summer already feels like it is halfway over. It probably is, I'm just too lazy to check.

The fourth (well, the third here) was great. I had the day off so I hung around home until and pretty much just killed time (playing video games and the such) until we went to the fireworks. We screwed around and set off our own little light show with the fireworks that we brought (The cheap non-explosive ones, the only ones legal in Illinois). The kids that were sitting near us loved it and we even got some applause from the people that were sitting in the grandstands behind us. We weren't doing it for fame, persay. Me and my brother just like lighting things on fire.

Then the main event came. The fireworks this year were pretty great. They were shorter than usual but the grand finale was more amazing than I remember it being in years. Maybe I just have a bad memory, but I thought they were pretty good. We were sitting up close (as close as you could get to where they were launching them from) and when all was said and done we found a pretty good sized chunk of a shell of one of the fireworks sitting about five or ten feet from where we were laying. We thought it was pretty neat and took it home as a souveneir.

Besides that I have just been working and trying to get everything settled for school in the fall. The stuff that you have to go through for financial aid these days is ridiculous. The thing that really irritates me about the whole thing are all of the kids who go to college just to party and flunk out of their classes. I don't mean to get up on my high horse - if people want to drink alcohol and do who-knows-what drugs-wise, that is their choice. It is just a shame that because of this kind of education system - if one would even call it that - it makes it hard for people who are serious about going to school for the purpose that it is meant for.

With that said, I'm not saying that college should be stone-cold serious. I like having fun (though I do it in different ways than many of my peers) but there has to be moderation. I have seen many of the kids from my graduating class in high school around town working in crappy jobs because they went to college and partied for the first year or year and a half and got kicked out, and it just makes me wonder how our educational system would be different if we weeded all those kids out from the start.

Ah well, enough ranting for a couple days. Back to video games. :)