Lester Burnham: When I was your age, I flipped burgers all summer just to be able to buy an eight-track.
Ricky Fitts: That sucks.
Lester Burnham: No, actually it was great. All I did was party and get laid. I had my whole life ahead of me.
I do not want summer to be over. I have no burning desire to get back to school. School, the way I remember it now, is stressful and depressing. It gives me chronic migraines. It doesn't leave me time to spend endless hours with friends or watch American Beauty over and over on DVD, or really think.
The decisions I make now will affect the rest of my life, or that is the propaganda. It's made me into a worrier, while being completely frozen by fear. Summer feels so static, like it will never end, and makes you feel that maybe if you put things off long enough, they will just go away.
Oh, how I wish that were true.
You are reading the life, times, and general musings of Jenna Tollerson. I am an independent web developer living in and around Athens, Georgia, USA. [read more]