Signs Your Summer Hasn’T Reached Its Potential

Mon., Aug. 14, 2000

10. So far, summer school was the highlight.

9. You went to bed early the first day of break.

8. You haven’t awakened since.

7. Running through the sprinkler was “too risky” for you.

6. You formed your own “Survivor” show, by yourself, but you already kicked yourself off.

5. You’re upset that “War and Peace” was only on your reading list once.

4. That boy-band career you planned on just isn’t taking off.

3. You’ve already shopped for school supplies and are arranging your pencils for the 100th time.

2. You’re strangely satisfied by nightly solitaire games.

And the No. 1 sign your summer hasn’t reached its potential is that the other kids in your Pokemon club are looking at you funny now that you’ve turned 17.

- Roxanne McPeck, Central Valley

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