Its the end of the summer. Usually a nice time. The weather gets a little cooler - that's always a good thing. Things change. Autumn is my favourite season. I love how beautiful it is. The end of the summer is quite bittersweet. I enjoy the fact that its almost Autumn. But there's a letting go of all the summer represents. Even if you didn't experience all that it represents. I had six courses this summer - it wasn't what summer is supposed to be. Other summers I've worked. They weren't what summer was supposed to be. But, I think its a feeling, ingrained in me from childhood.

This week has been wonderful. I wish it could stay like this forever.

Got my marks yesterday. This summer has been good mark wise. I got two 'b's - one I was expecting, one I was hoping was an 'A' (I wrote my final paper on the cusp of an '80'). So a 70 and a 75. And then, what were my other 4 marks you ask? Well, I'll tell you. 90. Or, to give you all four: 90, 90, 90, 90. The 75 and one 90 I knew about earlier the term (they were 6 week intensive courses). The rest were a wonderful sight. Yay.

Monday I go to my school. Monday it all starts. Today however, I go to 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'. Snoogins.

This song has been going through my head. So, 'End of the Summer' by Dar Williams it is.

The summer ends and we wonder where we are
And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car
And you both look so young
And last night was hard, you said
You packed up every room
And then you cried and went to bed
But today you closed the door and said
"We have to get a move on.
It's just that time of year when we push ourselves ahead,
We push ourselves ahead."

And it was cloudy in the morning
And it rained as you drove away
And the same things looked different
It's the end of the summer
It's the end of the summer,
When you move to another place

And I feel like the neighbor's girl
who will never be the same
She walked alone all spring,
She had a boyfriend when the summer came
And he gave her flowers in a lightning storm
They disappeared at night in green fields of silver corn
And sometime in July she just forgot that he was leaving
So when the fields were dying, she held on to his sleeves
She held on to his sleeves

And she doesn't want to let go
'Cause she won't know what she's up against
The classrooms and the smart girls
It's the end of the summer
It's the end of the summer
When you hang your flowers up to dry

And I had a dream it blows the autumn through my head
It felt like the first day of school
But I was going to the moon instead
And I walked down the hall
With the notebooks they got for me
My dad led me through the house
My mom drank instant coffee
And I knew that I would crash
But I didn't want to tell them
There are just some moments when your family makes sense
They just make sense

So I raised up my arms and my mother put the sweater on
We walked out on the dark and frozen grass
The end of the summer
It's the end of the summer
When you send your children to the moon

The summer ends and we wonder who we are
And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car
And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree
I passed the farms that made it
Through the last days of the century
And I knew that I was going to learn again
Again, in this less hazy light
I saw the fields beyond the fields
The fields beyond the fields

And the colors are much brighter now
It's like they really want to tell the truth
We give our testimony to the end of the summer
It's the end of the summer,
You can spin the light to gold.

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