8 minutes

possible ideas:

• the time it takes to properly brush your hair
• silent calls to your phone pen pal
• meditation on what 8 minutes means
• 100 espresso shots
• replaying the most intense million dollar question on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" each night
• hands, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes
• slowly building up the perfect ant colony (system of tunnels in carpeting)
• reinstating beenie baby school
• doing nothing 
• laughing at me
• making comix
• burning all previous summer plans that we NEVER COMPLETED
• writing your op-ed piece for the Old Stonebridge Times
• perfecting "Greensleeves" on the keyboard
• petting Selena (the beta)
• chipping away at the closet wall between our rooms
• texting dad
• I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE.
• oh making a sweater out of brooke's fur. 

am I getting closer?