Listen here summer baby, I just believe it's the right thing to do
I got a brand new bitch, corporate America
She showing me a lot of action right now
And I know you put me on my feet and all, but
I mean, it's time for me to grow
You gotta let me go baby, you gotta let me go
I'm done for now, so one for now
Possibly forever, we had fun together
But like all good things, we must come to an end
Please show the same love to my friends
Dear summer
Damn, I cant believe that its over, just like that. After 15 years of summers I have just completed my last one for the rest of my life. From now on Summer is only a season, not a vacation or a marker for the end of a term...just a change in the weather when my dress can change and a sign of when I will have to stop pressing my hair. My last summer before I enter the "real world" and start behaving the way grown folks do. Jay-Z really hit it on the head with that one. It almost updates the feeling you get from Will Smiths "Summer Time". It makes me sort of nostalgic, especially about this past summer.
Top 10 Things I'll Miss about NY
1. HOT 97
Wakeing up to Dear Summer and Ms. Jones in the Morning. NY radio is like nothing else in the world. DC radio is good too but NY is on some otherness.
2. My Haviana's
My feet would get soooo dirty from simply walking back and forth. The city grim clung to me and though I thought it was the most disgusting thing ever it was the city attatching its self to me.
3. Subways
Oh how I will miss my F, 6, and Q trains. The best part of the subway was when there were drummers in them. The sound of the drums billowing through the tunnels of a station is a feeling like no other. The drumming makes you feel alive and makes you feel like there's a rhythm to NY life. I'll also miss the people that ride the trains, I've got stories about those people that you would not believe. NY residents will do crazy things all so they can get across town. The rats the roaches and all, I'm gonna miss everything.
4. My Dreamers.
Uof Dreams is a program made up of people who are dedicated to doing what they love for a living rather than doing what seems to be right or makes the most money for them. The dreamer mentality is one that is courageous and fearless. Not many people can face adversity, face singularity or face themselves. UofDreams allowed its participant's to be happy about their direction and help them to figure out what the direction is.
5. JOHNNY ROCCO!
I cant believe how much I gained from working with this man for 8 weeks. We bonded, I have him under my skin and I care about him. I feel like I understand some parts of him and above anything respect him for who he is. He's made me laugh so much and has taught me so so so much that I can never repay him.
6. 1204 beauty's
My Suitematies were my favorite people in the program and probably the only people I knew in the program. We were a smart, beautiful, and fun room and I miss those girls already.
7. The Old and The Bold
NY men are off the hook and I will miss them. The old ones have no problem talking to you and asking for what they want, while the bold ones will say whatever they can think of to get your attention.
8. NY Hustlers and Bootleggers
I've told stories about them already but no where else will people try to sell you batteries on the public transportation, and no where else will you be able to buy movies before they hit theatres. Bootleggers level the playing field for so many. Not only can the celebs where expensive thousand dollar bags and accessories, but you can too!
9. NY Restaurants
New York has some of the greatest restaurants in the world. You can eat anything from Hotdogs to sushi and Thai food to fine Italian cuisine and back again. You can grab your meal from a Sabret stand and eat as you ride the train or eat lying down on a bed like the Greek eating expensive delectable delights at Duvet.
10. The Masses
Clods and Clods and masses and masses of people. They are everywhere, your never alone whether it be ,morning , noon or night, you can find at least 10 people within 5 feet of you. The city that never sleeps is also the city that never goes home. This aint your "It's 2 am-time to go home-there's a city curfew-the streets are clear city" Not even, this place is bustling constantly! Your never alone and your never without a place to go. The night clubs close at 4 but that doesn't leave home the destination. After hours spots open at 3 and go until 6 am. New Yorkers don't waste a moment.
I'm officially gone. Sitting here in Dumfries VA listening to the silence of suburbia and rural life. VA seems so southern to me now, so country and so small. I'm going through withdrawal and it doesn't feel good.
As far as my to do list...
1.Find metro-sexual Mos Def protege who was fathered by a descendent of Malcolm X and mothered by a black panther.
Well I didn't find anyone worth dating or marrying but I did see a few cuties. I'm not really ready for anything like that anyway, I really feel like I wanna be one of those career women that entertains once in a while but doesn't have an old man. Kinda like Oprah :)
2. Meet, touch, and get picture with Mos Def
I failed, I'm sad to say that I did not even come close to seeing the Mighty Mos in the flesh. I went to Brooklyn everyday and never saw him. Awful. The sad part about it all is that he is performing August 7th with Talib Kweli and Jaguar Wright for $20. I cant talk about it anymore or I might have a breakdown.... next.
3. Attend poetry club
This, I also did not get to do. Unfortunately, I will have to save that one for next time. :(
4. Shop
I really tried to make a special effort to be good and watch my spending. I didn't want to have to call my Mom for money so I tried to limit my shopping as much as I could. Toward the end, once Erica came I kinda went wild, not too wild but lets just say I'm gonna need to rest my Debt card for a while.
5. Drink
I turned 21 the day I moved in to my apartment and I had a great time experiencing all the joys of legal drinking. I've tasted some of the most interesting drinks that you could think of and learned my threshold for alcohol. Don't worry, I never got drunk and really don't plan to. Remember, when you drink you go for a swagger NOT a stagger. Drunk is never sexy!
6. Visit Museums
I visited a few nice museums and say some of the great art that New York is home to. My favorite was the Chanel exhibit at the MET. It was wonderful to celebrate the work of the House of Chanel and to see the direction that Karl Lagerfeld is taking it.
7. Reconnect with NY Fam
I got to get together with my Uncle and Aunt for dinner a few times and got to reconnect with my cousins which was so much fun. I'm happy that I got to see them and catch up.
8. Scope out areas I'd like to live in.
Its official, I will be residing at 70 Washington Place Apartment 9N. All I have to do is get $700,000 and its mine LOL
9. Go to 106& Park ( just kidding)
This was really a joke, Free is gone and I still don't get AJ's hair so I can enjoy it from home.
10. Go to a club that doesn't close at 2am
I didn't do as much partying as I thought I might have liked but I did get to go to a few nice places. Finally when I left the club it was because I was tired, NOT because its closing, or because there was a fight. Still in search of a really fun club but I can feel that my clubbing days are coming to an end. I don't plan on meeting a man and engaging in a serious relationship with him from the club so now its all about backing it up a little and having fun with my friends.
Summers done for me yall, no more of those responcibility free, nothing to do Junes that comes with summer vacation, but not the end of my Wild Junes either, I mean it is my birthday month, and I am grown .
Peace Yall.
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