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The Summer of 2011 — not necessarily what we bargained for.

Please vote on one of these titles for this summer, or add one of your own.

Summergatory

Prepissance

The Summer of Willed Equanimity

The Summer of Serendipity

The Summer of Prep Rediscovery

Super Silly Stupid Suicide Society of the Summer Session.

Now, as to how you vote, I have absolutely no clue.  I think there’s something called “disqus”  (WHY IS EVERYTHING MISSPELLED ON THE INTERTHINGY?)  Or just add a post.

Or don’t.

I’ve just driven home from a day in the country and… at 7:37 pm, it’s time for …. a gimlet!

I asked for a good name to characterize this weird summer.  So far we’ve received three suggestions from readers.  I’ll post them here.  Vote for them, or start a write-in campaign for one of your own.

• The Summer of Willed Equanimity.

•  The summer of prep-rediscovery  

•  “Summergatory.”      

It’s clear I’m doing something wrong.

 I wrote a tweet that made me laugh (and I’m hypercritical of myself), and no one wrote back.

I would have written back, but that’s beside the point.  

During the Vietnam war I think I remember a slogan which was “What if they gave a war and nobody came?”  (I think that was it.  I was only a child then.  Really.) I thought of it today.  What if I wrote a tweet, and nobody responded?  If “I tweet, therefore I am,” then maybe this is the wilderness, after all.

I had a meeting today with my digital team at Alfred A. Knopf, my publisher.  I’d say something in English, and they would translate it to algorithms and codes or something similar.  I didn’t always understand what they said, but I know whatever they will do, they will do beautifully.  And why?  To make you — our friends and followers — even happier.  To offer you more content.  To make True Prep a more responsive web destination.  

All this giving can take a lot out of a girl, so I’m going to say goodnight for now.

Sweet dreams,

Lisa