Summer is filled with distractions and trying to keep your focus on big initiatives while everyone else is off frolicking or when you can smell the newly-mown grass outside your living room window as you drill yourself on logic games is a formidable task.

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She saw paper stars hanging from the ceiling, and cards and posters on the wall, and a homey bedspread upon the mattress, but faeries had come to carpet the room with grass, to pave the walls with stone and set them with jewels, and to blow a cover of clouds to hide the horrible suspended ceiling.

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One quipped that it will soon be standing room only in the long grass.

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