My borrowed summer

This summer, as I've been finishing up research projects and getting ready to defend, I've had the nagging feeling I've been living here on borrowed time. Nothing's provided a clearer sign of that than what I'm seeing around town -- summer in full, blinding bloom. Things that I saw in the past and forgot about spur my memory and harry me when I see them again.

Here are some of those things:

• Camera-toting tourists snapping pictures of the fountain in front of Rackham


• Folder-toting freshmen getting oriented to North Campus


• The sun dusking through my westward windows
  


• Tents going up for Summer Festival


• Blackberry stains on the cement


• Friends on the move


• Kids everywhere


• My tan

Alack, my lack of alacrity!