Before school let out I was asking Mom if she could find me a job in her library, or any of the other local public libraries. She told me she might be able to, but she also said "You probably shouldn't work in a library... you know how you go to the library to relax and concentrate? Now that I work in a library I can't feel that way about it anymore." So I went looking elsewhere.

Now that I think back to Mom's advice, I realize why this summer sucks! Even though her advice made sense, for some reason I took a job at the beach. Now I get to spend a lot of time at the beach, but never have fun there! It's true - I do have a lot of free time there - but I'm still at work. And then on days like today, my days off, I don't want to go to the beach and have fun! I could be skimming today! But I've had so much sun, sand, & sea through the week that I don't even feel like going outside at all on my days off.

So if I were to make a list of all the things I enjoy, I could cross nearly all of them off because I've had enough sun through the week. This brings to light new, miserable worries - what about computers! I'm going to be taking computer classes for the rest of college, and then - gasp! - I have to get a job with them. Will I start to hate them also? Nothing I can do about it, I guess, but a scary thought nonetheless.

I suppose it all comes down to trying new things. Since I work on the beach, maybe I should try to find fun things to do that don't involve the beach or the water - that won't be easy! At least this job can fund some of these new things. And if I start to hate computers, I'll just have to keep trying new things on the side to keep my life from being boring.

As always, the biggest challenge is to have new adventures instead of just playing new computer games...