I’m not actually off from school for the summer until the end of June, but I feel like summer truly starts when the last season finale airs. For me, summer started last Sunday, the moment Jack Shephard closed his eyes in extreme close-up.
With the exception of True Blood and The Fabulous Beekman Boys on Planet Green, there’s not much that interests me on television this summer. That means this geek girl has a lot of time on her hands. What the hell am I going to do?
Re-watch Babylon 5
I’ve tried starting the series again from time to time, but my heart wasn’t in it. The series finale of Lost, however, got me thinking about B5 again. I’ve owned all five seasons on DVD for a few years; maybe it’s time to remove the shrink wrap.
Catch up on some movies
There are a lot of movies I’ve missed in the past couple years. Now that we have movie channels again, I can catch up. I started last night with Repo! The Genetic Opera. BTW, even as a murderous organ repo man, Anthony Head is still a total silver fox.
Embroider everything in sight
Mom taught me how to embroider years ago, but I didn’t really do it until recently while trying to spruce up a boring hobo bag I’d made. It was kind of addictive and now anything that gets left on the floor of our apartment is in danger of turning up with a skull embroidered on it. Urban Threads has only enabled this and by the end of summer, there will be skulls and robots and rayguns adorning everything I own.
Get started on that underground lab
Call it a “basement” if you want; to me, it’s an underground lab. It’s a mess right now, but the plan is to clean it out so we can put in a basement garden, shelves for homemade cheese and homebrewed ciders, and a sewing/ therapeutic crafts lair (from whence I’ll draft my plot to take over the world with embroidery floss and a hot glue gun).
Learn how to properly use the word “whence”
Because I’m not sure I used that in the correct context.
Farming. Seriously.
We started a container vegetable garden on the patio, but the guy who owns the vacant lot across the street is letting us grow over there, too. The land is full of rubble and my brown thumbs are feared throughout the plant world, yet the sunflowers I planted last weekend are already sprouting. Between that, the container garden, and the underground lab, we’ll be all set for the Mad Max future that’s coming. (Don’t judge me; my brother is doing it, too. He and I are prepared to form a fringey compound if necessary).
Read books. Lots of ‘em.
That’s what I’m doing. What are you doing this summer?
Lisa Fary is a graduate of the creative writing program at Florida State University and holds an advanced degree in Special Education. Her earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She’s angry that it’s 2010 and she still doesn’t have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram.
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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
"…Repo! The Genetic Opera. BTW, even as a murderous organ repo man, Anthony Head is still a total silver fox."
Oh, hells yes! I love, love, love this movie. Where else are you going to get Sarah Brightman and Paris Hilton singing an operatic duet? Awesome! (Also, Terence 'Graverobber' Zdunich is scary yummy.)
"What are you doing this summer?"
Well, sadly, my TV schedule is still pretty full, what with Burn Notice, Leverage, So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef, True Blood, My Boys, Eureka, and Warehouse 13 all coming back in the next few weeks. That said, I'll also be doing some grilling with (and baking for) my friends, hiking, camping, reading, painting (walls, not art), gaming, and planning a trip to Italy for the Fall. Plus, y'know, work.
Sounds like a great summer. I'm going to finish BSG, work on making a BSG fighter pilot uniform, sell one of my sites so I have more free time, open a Cthulhu store on Etsy (thereby taking away some of the free time)…and work, of course.
Saw the crocheted Cthulhus on your site – super cute!
The secret life of the american teen…seriously.
I started a container garden on my apartment balcony last year and loved working on it. I almost rented a house this year just to have more room for it. There's something just fascinating to me about watching everything grow.
Aside from that, my plans for the summer currently revolve around learning to play the ukulele.
I am going to be doing science most of the summer, as in the working world, I don't really notice summer that much. Actually, summer is field season for us scientists, so it can be even worse! However without too many new TV shows (Futurama though!!), I would like to try and get into Dr. Who finally. My hubs was also walking about rewatching B5 and it's my favorite, so I approve. You have to barrel through the first season though to get to the really good stuff! We'll probably watch more movies too, I don't know what's on the netflix cue, well, Tron next, then I don't know.
Rosalind
Girls Are Geeks
Since I have way too much time on my hands during the summer, I end up watching A LOT of old TV and reading. I'm currently watching SGU for the first time. Also, I've gone back to rewatch Buffy and Angel from the beginning, thank you, Netflix! I've also gotten into Dr. Who, finally. There's a lot of back eps to watch of that, too.
USA, TNT and Syfy have great original programming for the summer: Burn Notice, Royal Pains, White Collar, Leverage, Eureka, and Caprica. My DVR will still be kickin' it in overdrive, all summer long.
And don't forget the return of True Blood and Dexter! Oh, and Futurama. Summer hiatus is no longer the hiatus it used to be… Thank gods!