Summer is SORTA busy

Just busy enough that I haven't even finished transcribing my OWN journal from Field Training, much less had time to put chunks of it onto here. I'm pretty busy taking school classes Mon-Thurs in Ann Arbor, where I'm subletting an apartment. Fri-Sun I typically head home and have a more typical summer, relaxing and seeing people I don't see during the school year.

The classes I'm taking are Psychology 111 and Econ 101 (Macroeconomics). Into classes basically, and just to fill my social sciences/humanities requirement for my major and to buff my GPA a little bit since last year hurt my overall GPA because I didn't do too well.

Getting back in the studying mindset is hard, even after the focus and drive Field Training brought. It's one thing to sit down and accomplish a task, work out, solve a problem... entirely another to sit down and read something for comprehension, especially if you don't enjoy the subject material. But, I'm adapting, and it'll prepare me for my upcoming 17 credit semester (ughhhhhh.)

I haven't been entirely lazy outside of class though. I have friend in Field Training write now and I've been making them a newsletter with news from the past week, some funny pictures, and a few comics. Hopefully they're enjoying reading them as much as I had fun making them.

Spending most of my free, non-studying time in Ann Arbor down at the local gamestore. The people who work there are great, I've made friends with a few of the regulars (and become one myself) and I've been using all those models I've been buying and painting for their intended use: simulated heavy ordnance. It's like painting those jet models as a kid, but now instead of flying them around and making 'pchew pchew' noises there's actually set down rules and even tournaments I occasionally participate in. Hobbies are fun, and they've pretty much replaced video games in my free time (not that I don't still set aside time to rock out a few single-player video games with good stories, like Mass Effect 2, or the Fallout series.)

Anyways. That's what I've been doing this summer! Hope y'all are having just as good of one.