Au revoir, summer. Plus, cool folding tips!

Wow, I haven’t blogged in a while. One new boss, one lost coworker, one new coworker, one trip to Tanglewood, two weddings, and one diversion as a wedding blogger (for a friend’s wedding, not mine!) later, I’m back. The month of August has been eventful, and this summer in general has been pretty fun, surprisingly, and now that it’s ending, I’m having a bit of the end-of-summer blues. And I’m lamenting the things I didn’t get to do. The weather in New York is cooling fast, and I haven’t had a chance to wear all the cute dresses I bought. I didn’t get to sit in Central Park one day, all day, and read, like I had planned. I didn’t go to the rooftop of the Met. I didn’t spend one day sneaking into movie after movie at one of the massive Loews theaters. I didn’t go out to Long Beach to swim in nasty Atlantic Ocean water. I didn’t see any of the Bryant Park movies. I didn’t go out to picnic on one of the piers that face the Hudson or East rivers. I didn’t eat any barbecue outside. Sigh.

On the other hand, I did go to Hawaii (that makes up for about 100 Long Beach trips). I did lose my annoying boss. I did go to a few park concerts, including a perfect night for Opera in the Park, in which I momentarily fell asleep under the (hidden) stars. I did party hardy as a bridesmaid at a dear friend’s wedding (possibly the most fun wedding I’ve ever been to), and I did see my childhood friend (whom I grew up with and who was always boy crazy and who passed notes to me about her crushes and who flirted like crazy, but who never quite found the right guy) finally get married to a boy who just might be able to handle her. So I guess I shouldn’t lament the coming of the Labor Day weekend too much and just hope that fall brings some equally momentous or less-momentous-but-equally-satisfying events. Plus I have all my fall TV stories startin'.

On a random aside, with all the traveling I did this summer, I should have watched this video before I filled my suitcase. Leave it up to the Japanese to come up with an inventive, efficient, origami-inspired way to fold a T-shirt. Who comes up with this stuff??