Ode to Summer

I start school on Monday. (Loud groaning noise in background) Yeah, I'm going to high school. No, I'm not nervous. I am looking forward to taking creative writing, being involved in the school play, Beauty and the Beast, seeing my friends every day, and playing volleyball.
It's the stuff in between I'm not looking forward to. Algebra 1, Physical Science, English (we're reading Great Expectations, yippee-doo), that stuff. And the getting up at six thirty is rather unappealing too. I value my sanity and sleep, and those are two things I will most definitely be lacking in once school really starts.
However, I have had a pretty eventful summer.
Highlights include but are not limited to:
-Visiting my cousins in Greenville-did you know that lightning bug guts glow in the dark???
-Going shopping with my friends. (You can fit four teenage girls on the Big Bird kiddie ride at the mall. It's just really uncomfortable.)
-Going to Mount Olympus with my friends and going down the insanely scary drop slide-FIVE SECONDS LONG!!! SO FREAKY!!!
-Working on my four writing projects. (3 Princess Tales, still not finished with Rumplestiltskin, ugh, as well as Shackles, my novel and pet project)
-Walking around town (mostly to the library)
-Which contributed to the 90+ books I have read since the beginning of summer.
-Spending 3 weeks in NY with my grandparents and seeing my cousins and going tubing and learning to ski. (Sort of. I'm not very good yet.)
-Getting a bloody nose on my final tube run as well as a swollen lip that earned me several stares and the nickname "Duck."
-Starting volleyball preseason (I have to get up for it now though and it's been seriously messing with my biological clock...can't sleep past 6:30 anymore...so sad.)

So, I guess that's about it. High school, here I come!!! (Ready or not. Preferably not.)