This is the End of Summer

I wasn't sure when school would start to feel like school again, but it happened today. Last week I read my demography book for my (sweet) online class and decided that I would wait a few days to finish the reading response that is due today (Wednesday). As usual with procrastination it is now Wednesday and I still have not completed my assignment. This assignment may be the easiest assignment I've had since my general ed classes at CBU. Here is the question I have to answer: Give two examples of ways in which demography is related to things that can be “ripped from the headlines.”

Sounds simple, right? Sounds like I should be able to whip out a response to 15 seconds, right? Sounds like I could write the answer in my sleep without even reading my demography book, right?

Wrong. Here's why:

I haven't written anything that was supposed to sound intelligent since May. That was three and a half months ago. I feel incredibly dumb. And that is also why I am writing this ridiculous note...because I need to get in the groove, the writing groove, the back-to-school groove.

I always forget what a bummer it is to write intelligently. Over the summer my vocabulary has decreased by about 10% (which may or may not be a random percentage). When I sat down to write the reading response I couldn't think of the specific words that I needed to use to describe any given situation. Stuff, things, something, were all running through my head.

I'm so screwed. This assignment is going to be really really ridiculously badly written (go adverbs!). But that is the way the world turns I suppose. Hopefully the next assignment will progress much better than this first one. Perhaps next time I'll sound more like a college student and less like a fourth grader.