i love the feeling of no longer having to care (much)

i gave notice at my job today, which makes me so HAPPY! not just capital h happy, capital word happy (as you can see). i still have to work for two and a half-ish weeks after i get back from the texicali adventure, but... dude! an end is in sight! and then i have until school starts to do jack shit (the very idea of which offends my mother. why don't i want to be constantly productive? why?). i'm totally looking forward to it. it's not like i'm going to lie around drunkenly in the sun the entire time, after all. granted, that's mostly because i sunburn just by thinking about it. but still...

***
does anyone besides southwestern grads actually still say "dude"?

***
i did finally change that light bulb, by the way