Summer is glorious. The weather is despicable, of course, and my mom’s Soviet sensibilities clash with my desire for proper air conditioning, and I can’t find a job, but otherwise it’s completely excellent. My computer’s back in my room, and so all I’ve been doing is alternating between it and SAT practice and Ayn Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness. Mostly SAT practice, actually. But the perceived freedom is lovely.

Last night Jason and I did sushi and Star Wars (the original), and also fell asleep. Those movies are great, though. Completely campy, but so ingrained in the collective unconscious that lines like “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced” make me really happy. Still, the special effects are pathetic. Really makes you appreciate this century: the Matrix! iPods! the Internet! Capitalism! Hooray!

I like how completely unhelpful Dictionary.com’s synonyms for great (definition: excellent) are:

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