onefixedstar | Summer Evaluated

Advantages of summer:

1) Fewer pesky undergraduates running around competing for scarce library resources.
2) The leaves on the trees hide the hideous buildings that comprise the campus. (Now if only they could do something about the seventies art on the inside of the buildings...)
3) I don't have to spend ten minutes putting on extra layers before taking the recycling out.
4) Fresh produce! (Now if only I had time to cook.)
5) Hey, I'm pretty impressed that I even managed to come up with four.

Disadvantages of summer:

1) Heat (I know, I know, it's not the head--it's the humidity. However, since I've never experienced a dry heat, it's all the same to me.)
2) The profs keep insisting on going away on vacation. (Although given the rate at which my thesis is progressing, I should probably list that as an advantage; supervisor on vacation = fewer pointed questions about my lack of output.)
3) Fewer people to eat lunch with. (Apparently some of my fellow graduate students have decided they're also entitled to vacations)
4) No more Reading Buddies program at the library. (I miss reading with the little guys!)
5) Well meaning people keep trying to convince me to sign up for softball teams, despite my repeated explanations of how much I detest sports that involve flying objects.