Just got back from the *opera* with my mother and sisters. It was quite
lovely. I fell in love with the tenor when he sang La Fleur from Carmen
. . . . just beautiful. So that was a fun experience. I think I’m
finally beginning to settle into my summer. Spending last night with
friends was a LOT of fun and I’m glad I got the chance to do that
before I started despairing that my social life was beyond repair. Now
the trick is to get together with people often enough to keep me from
hermitage but not so often that I become jaded by the many freedoms of
summertime. It has taken me till now to recognize that I can do things
almost any night of the week instead of just on the weekends now.
    Oh and I also made my first real foray into a
Starbucks…where I actually bought and consumed something
coffee-related. The background to that story is that b.c. (before
college) I did not like coffee at all.
But then somehow…magically…after a couple months at school, I
suddenly started liking coffee and drinking it of my own free will. And
I even prefer it black, unlike many coffee drinkers of the
“acquired-taste persuasion” who drink it for caffeine’s sake with
plenty of cream and sugar. So anyhow, that’s a big ol’ thang. Never
before entered a Starbuck’s or [insert other coffee chain here] and now
I have. One more thing checked off on my list of activities for the
summer. Make that two, because of the opera experience.