summertime...



...and the livin's easy.

Summer's are fantastic aren't they? I mean, even if you're working, its a break from school (and I guess if you worked year round, summer school would be a break from work)... its just something different.

The last "summer vacation" I had was 03... DC baby. Honestly, that was such an awesome summer... the drinking, partying, exploring, learning, working, going to all sorts of cool events and meeting awesome people.

Which of course leads me to my reunion with my 03 buddy... MIKEY! Lev, Mike and I are going to head up to Canada in two weeks for some armo gathering in Toronto. Tata, Andy, Armenchik, Paul... 7000 armos (supposedly). Sounds like a great time no? And Mike promised to sing Ghapama at some point.

For those who don't know the story. Mike was the sole male intern in the intern class of 03. That's right - 8 girls and 1 guy. I think he came into it thinking he was blessed but about a week later realized he was actually cursed. He managed to make some friends outside the intern crew (i think the excess estrogen got to him) but when it came down to it, we were all always together for the big nights. Now, Mike's trademark... well, actually mike had several (Wait for it... Wait for it....)... but one "Mike" thing was the song Ghapama... Mike is the only person i know who knows ALL the words to that song (he even wrote it out for me - sorry Mike, i lost the paper). One night, we were all headed to Ara's house for a party out in the DC suburbs so we were waiting at the Metro station to change lines. It was something like 10-15 of us... all obviously drunk (as we'd always pre-party before leaving the dorms)... Mike busted out singing ghapama and a group of us started doing the michigan hop (i dont even know what the michigan hop is anymore) and of course, clapping and singing along. Eventually, someone got on the loudspeaker and asked that we refrain from singing and dancing in the T station... (they sounded a bit annoyed with us). Too bad huh?

We had some crazy times that summer....