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 flash (week 2)

1. I’m still pretty exhausted…

2. And I’m still loving my internship

3. Speaking of my internship; as part of my job there I answer the phone and get to listen to people’s opinions and complaints about government and I’ve come to two conclusions:

1. People can be really, really stupid
2. People can be really judgemental and heartless

4. Also because of my internship I’ve been reading the newspaper a lot and I stumbled on a weekly op-ed piece and in the last couple the guy who writes it quoted some definitions from Ambrose Bierce’s “The Devil’s Dictionary” and I liked a few of them so I thought I’d share:

              “PAST, n. – That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance.  A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future.  These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike.  The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy.  The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song.  In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to the temples of success and bowers of ease.  Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of tomorrow.  They are one – the knowledge and the dream.”

5. The other ones I liked I also wanted to comment on so here goes:

              “POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.  The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”  I thought this was appropriate considering I’m thinking of going in to some form of politics after I’m done with college – it’s pretty damning and kind of funny but at the same time I read it and go “hmm…” Bierce may be on to something here.

              “POLITENESS, v. The most acceptable hypocrisy.”  Ok, ouch!  But then I thought of a few people who this applies to…or, think about this, when you are at work and somebody is annoying the crap out of you and being obnoxious and you can’t do anything but smile because otherwise you might get fired; applies now, huh?  I know I’ve done that.

              “PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”  I actually like this one maybe it’s because of the “confessedly unworthy” part…what do you think, yea or nay?

              “REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew.  The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.”  And this one is just plain funny!!!  Lol!!!

6. So I know I said I was going to post something about a friend, but I contacted her and she hasn’t responded and now I’ma thinking that I probably won’t post anything about it for what will remain undisclosed reasons. *sigh* life…

7. Earlier in the week we had some extreme weather – flooding, tornadoes, hail, severe thunderstorms – yeah, it was fun.  I enjoyed everything except the flooding, hail and tornadoes…lol, so basically I absolutely loved the thunderstorms!

8. I LOVE warm weather!!!!

9. I had to call 911 the other night (or morning) at 1:30 because I heard someone yelling for help, turns out it was a bunch of drunk girls who were lost…awesome…