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 24)

1. Soooo…who forgot about Daylight Savings Time?  I didn’t (yaaaa) but that’s only because my phone automatically updates the time lol!

2. Still tired.

3. My computer is officially dying.  I can’t open more than one Internet window, I can do tabs but even then when I try to close the Internet browser I get the little box that says Internet Explorer has stopped working.  Windows is looking for a solution. Followed by Internet Explorer is restarting.  And if I try to ‘cancel’ the second box it just sits there with a blank webpage and a little hourglass and even starting task manager and hitting “end task” a jillion times does nothing.  Basically I have to let it restart and then I can close it because when I do that I get a little information box that informs me that something went wrong with the program and it will now close…………no?!?!?!?  Really???  Because I totally couldn’t tell!!  Also Microsoft Word has started doing funky things too, and Facebook does weird things and wordpress…what else…oh yeah I went through and cleaned out what I could from my C: drive but it randomly changes on how much space I have left going up and down, up and down, up and down.  *So I ran my antivirus and antispyware deepscans and Big Fat NOTHING, that’s right no viruses or anything else*  This sucks!

4. On that note – I moved what I could off the computer and on to a couple of thumb drives so I don’t lose anything.

5. Wi-Fi also sucks, still randomly disconnecting and having connectivity issues but I’ve noticed that it seems to stay connected longer and work better when the ‘signal strength’ is between ‘poor’ and ‘good’ but if it moves up to ‘really good’ or ‘excellent’ that’s when it really starts acting up.  Wierd.

6. Days to graduation = 26 w/o holidays and weekends

w/ holidays and weekends = 39

w/o holidays = 34

7. Days to Thanksgiving break when I can go home and see my family and my cat = 16

8. One of my plants bit the dust but my bamboo sprouted a new…stalk? branch?  I’m not sure what to call it but it is new growth which is soo cool!

9. Hey it’s my Mom’s (aka purple dragon lady) b-day today!  Hippo Birdies Mom!!!

10. Do you know what else I get to see on my Thanksgiving break?  The new Harry Potter movie!!

11. A lot on my mind…mostly that I miss writing my longer, more in-depth blog posts (because I have a few things on my mind that would work better that way but I just don’t have the time) and my stories…but I’m thinking that even when I’m out of school I’ll keep this ‘week-in-a-flash’ thing up but it’ll be more like a placeholder for a certain day than anything else……

12. The town I currently live in is so odd, it’s a college town but it pretty much closes down at around 9 or 10 pm and I mean streets empty, stores and restaurants closed even places like Perkins which is usually open 24 hours…in fact the only thing that stays the same is Wal-Mart because it’s Wal-Mart.