I hate to admit it, but after a week without Gossip Girl I was starting to have withdrawals. I never expected to even like the show and now I'm addicted.

Blair wakes up from a bad dream, one in which Serena is the queen bee and gives all the right answers to the dean at Yale. Hmm... whoever said that dreams are predictions of the future may just be right in this case. Blair tries to shake off the dream to get excited about her tour of Yale later in the day. She just knows she'll be a shoo-in and best of all she can't wait to get away from Serena. Of course, that may be harder than she thinks. Apparently Serena is the new "it" girl gracing the pages of Page Six.

As the title suggests, Serena officially becomes the queen bee this week. But, don't expect Blair to go down easily. Well, not in this case at least.

We begin the week with Blair helping her mom with the seating chart for her show at New York Fashion Week. Blair is loving the attention her mom is giving her. On the walk to school Dan fills Jenny in on what he's been upto writing-wise. As they get to school Jenny makes up something about her class not being for a little while, so Dan heads into school. Jenny, on the other hand, calls Laurel to let her know she'll be at Eleanor's office soon. Looks like Jenny is still skipping school to intern.

We begin this week in the Bass-Vanderwoodsen home where Serena, her mom and brother are having breakfast. Chuck briefly drops in on the breakfast just long enough to ruin Serena's plan to talk her mom into letting her skip school. Chuck fills her mom in on the fact that Serena and Dan have broken up and she only wants to skip school to avoid seeing Dan.

These are the last few days of Summer... Autumn officially begins on Monday. Yuck! Gossip Girl has some tips on how to beat the heat before Fall. #1 - Drink plenty of fluids. #2 - Stay out of the sun. #3 - Limit all physical activity... that is, within reason.

In the beginning, we see that summer flings are still fully intact. Dan and Serena, and Marcus and Blair are still totally together. Though the heat between Dan and Serena is much hotter than that between the Lord and the Waldorf. Nate is still fooling around Katherine, but he really just wants to be with Vanessa. And, Jenny is still struggling to make the best of her internship with Eleanor.

A couple things that Gossip Girl has learned this Summer: #1 Don't fall asleep on the job because the best hook-ups are free of morning breath and awkward  conversation, and the only thing harder than breaking up is waking up.

SPOTTED: Dan and Serena waking up on the beach in the Hamptons looking a little rough from the night before. Have these two been hit by cupid's arrow again or is this just a late blooming summer fling? It looks like even Serena is confused of what this all means.

You may think your summer was hot, but I bet Nate Archibald was having a hotter one. Nate has been spending the summer in the Hamptons playing boy toy to a "cougar" (Linda Hogan are you there?). Chuck has been enjoying his bachelorhood sleeping with any new meat to come ashore, though as to be expected we know deep down he's really wishing he hadn't screwed things up with Blair. Douche! Meanwhile, Serena has been laying low spending time at the beach, alone... at least for now.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers, ever.
One foot in sea and one on shore
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go
And be you blithe and bonny
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into 'Hey, nonny, nonny!' -- William Shakespeare, 'Much Ado About Nothing'

If I ever have a psychotic woman trying to ruin my life, you know who I want in my corner? Blair Waldorf, Nate Archibald and Chuck Bass. Oh, I know, Chuck has those pesky virgin-molesting tendencies, and Blair can skewer you like a shish-kabob with a lift of her chin and four pointed words, and it takes an earthquake to shake my boy Nate out of his pretty-boy complacency, but when they're together on a mission? They're unstoppable, unflappable, and unbeatable.

Holy crap. Georgina Sparks makes Blair Waldorf look like Joan of Arcadia. We've got secrets. We've got lies. We've got videotape. It's a gossip trifecta!

"RAISING GIRLS IS DIFFERENT" -- Lily's still hip-deep in nuptial planning while Bart Badass has taken my two main reasons for watching the show Chuck and Nate off to Monte Carlo for his bachelor party -- off-screen, unfortunately, so I can't even soothe my anxious brow with Chace Crawford's baby blues. Rufus comes to Lily, desperate for "a mother's advice" about what to do about Jenny, who, I think we can all agree, is careening out of control. For one thing, she's hosting a party at her new boyfriend's apartment, all the while telling her father she's got choir practice. Even though he knows darn well what she's up to! Next thing you know, she'll be doing a classy-yet-somehow-inappropriate photo shoot for Vanity Fair! Rufus and Lily's parental bonding is the sweetest thing in the episode, and the look Rufus gives Lily as she tries on her wedding dress while they're chatting may be the hottest moment the show's ever given us. Considering the other front-runners -- Serena and Nate on the barstool, Chuck and Blair slipperying up the limo seat, and Dan, Nate and Chuck in that Palace courtyard brawl/ménage a trois -- that's saying something. Lily's advice for Rufus? "Wait and hope. Trust that you've done your job." She says Jenny will come back to him eventually. Yeah, when she needs bail money.