I GRADUATED!!!!

I’M AN ALUMNUS!!!!

I’M A GRADUATE!!!!

I HAVE A B.S. IN ENGLISH!!!!  (that’s a Bachelor of Science in case you were confused ;P)

Ok so this is a little late because I graduated on Saturday (the 18th of December), but I was busy Saturday with graduating and all and then I drove back to Colorado with the parentals so it was late when I got home and I went straight to bed.  Then on Sunday I slept and then went Christmas shopping with mi madre and just the thought of getting on the computer even for fun put my stomach in knots, I needed a bit of a break.  Then I slept most of the day Monday so here it is Tuesday and I’m just now getting around to announcing it…oh well that’s the way it goes sometimes.

The graduation ceremony was fun, it was the fall ceremony so it’s smaller and goes faster than the spring ceremony.  I sat in the front row pretty much smack dab in the middle; right in front of the podium where the president of the university, the registrar, the student body president and the president of the alumni association spoke from.  I only cried twice; once during a song that the choir sang and then when the alumni president spoke and called us alumni.  They gave us all namecards so we could pronounce our name to the dean and then they would read it out; the namecards also had the honors on it like Summa Cum Laude or whatnot.  I was just happy because this way my name wasn’t butchered.  They did mis-pronounce my middle name but I didn’t care so much because they got my first and last name right so yaaaaaa!!!!

I still have a few little things to finish but overall I’m done…and it feels weird.  It’s going to take a little while for it to sink in.  I keep finding myself doing things that I did in the past when I came to visit my parents.  Like gazing at the mountains and trying to soak it in as much as I can to sustain me only to remember that I don’t have to do that now.  Just little things like that.

And now Christmas is like right here and I haven’t done any shopping so I’m having to do that this week and after that it’s job hunting time…hooray…I have a few prospects lined up so we’ll just have to see if anything pans out.  I figure I’ll be lucky if I get a job before next Christmas.  Kidding, sort of!!

So that’s where things stand.  I should have week-in-a-flash back next week, though I doubt I’ll have a whole lot for it and as soon as I finish up with the few things for school that I have left and get into the mindset of “hey I can do this for fun!” this being reading and writing, then I’ll have other things besides week-in-a-flash and I’ll be able to catch up on all the blogs I read.  And do you know what else I can do now that I’m a graduate and an alumnus?  I can start reading for fun without having to analyze the book so I can write a paper on it later and I can watch TV like a real person now and I can write my stories again and I don’t have to pull all-nighters and I can eat real food…so exciting!!

week in a flash (week 14)

1. I have moved into my new place – it’s a kitchenette unit in a motel, basically it’s like a furnished studio apartment.  So far I like it.  It’s pretty nice, plus I have two pictures of young Elvis here – oh yeah be jealous!  :)

2. One drawback – no Coco (she’s staying with the parentals until I’m done) – and I already miss her…

3. I start classes on Tuesday…here comes the madness

4. By next week I’m going to know exactly how many days I’ll have until I graduate and then I’ll keep you updated on how long it’ll be (right now I know it’ll be approximately four months but I want exactness because I am an English major (soon to be graduate)).

5. I painted my fingernails black today, I really like how they look when they are black…must be the Goth in me  ;D

6. During my final week at the old apartment I drank a lot of tea and I made sure that it was Irish Breakfast Tea…because the English Breakfast Tea was too proper for me.  LOL!  I’m only kidding but it was what I came up with when I realized that there were two different kinds of Breakfast Tea and I only wanted the Irish kind.

7. There’s a lot of outside light that shines in at night in my new place which makes me as happy as a clam because I sleep better at times when it’s lighter at night like during a full moon or in the city where there are a lot of streetlights, Mom thinks it’s wierd ;)

8. I almost forgot the most important piece of news…JACK IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!  (That’s my Jeep for those who didn’t know)