Scene and Heard around the Dash

in typical summer college student fashion I spent the day yesterday with several friends, out by the pool working on blinding those around me with my amazing paleness. you've got to love the country club and the endless number of teenagers who show up to see and be seen. it's one of those situations where you see people you really don't want to see but know you have to speak to, so you put on your biggest, toothiest debutante smile and ask them how their year at school was. we were lucky and didn't have too many run-ins.
but, here are a few of our key sightings:

• 13-year-old girl (former babysitting charge) decked out in her string bikini. string bikini I tell you... at 13. needless to say, she didn't give me the time of day.
• 16-year-old football player (spotted by my friend - his tutor). this beast of a boy has muscles out the wazoo and we wanted to see them in person. unfortunately there was no gun show at the pool.
  
• our high school history teacher. let's suffice it to say - this woman was amazing. a great teacher, really knew her modern european history. she taught us well, despite lack of tact sometimes. she's also suffered through 2 hip replacements and double knee replacements. she's finally retiring from teaching to spend more time with her grandkids. I must give her big props for braving the swim club!
  

so those are the best spottings of the day. I'm hoping Chautauqua will give me characters like this to blog about. I'm a compulsive people watcher and might even consider it one of my hobbies. somehow, I have a feeling the Institution might provide even better people watching than good 'ole W-S. who knows though.

in the meantime, I'm still stuffing things into duffles and boxes hoping all my clothes and necessities for the summer will fit and meet USAirways' weight requirement!