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Friday, May 21, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Sixty-One and I'm DONE!
Yup, a quaint but unintentional rhyme that I just realized was. Oops. Oh well.
This is the sixty-first (and second to last) post here, the last will be the notification to the one person who stalks me to watch another blog instead of this one. I am thinking of moving to Wordpress. Why? Because it looks shiny and has more sophisticated options.
So, as of last Sunday I am a graduate! I have passed the four years of arduous work for a shiny piece of paper that says I learned shit. The said piece of paper is on my desk in its red leather book. The cap and tassel and Hawk feather are put away safely, and the gown is a crumpled mess waiting to be cleaned and stored away.
All in all it was pretty fun. The speakers were interesting and one (I think was a sociobiologist of sorts) was talking about how there were these hairless apes marching in lines with fabric-wrapped squares stuck on their heads. Made Graduation sound ridiculous, but that is okay. I was told that it really is more for the parents. However, I felt it was kind of for me, too. It marked the end of one chapter (though it is kind of dragging on working at the school and all) and the beginning of my life as an adult.
That last thought thoroughly terrifies me. And to make things better (or worse) I am getting married soon, so I will be taking two HUGE steps into adulthood. I guess having an apartment and having to pay all my own bills was one step, but I had classes as well. I guess caring for two felines is another type of growing up, but they are fuzzy balls of happiness and fun and I don't count them the same as one would count children.
I had a moment that made me sad. My little sister (next one down), EBean, is having a baby in only a few short months. I will be married. The last of the oldest four of us is going to college. Despite the two smallest still being in elementary school, I remember when they were born, not to mention they will soon be taller than me and that is tragically unfair. I blame genetics for this cruel twist of things. They are not yet teens and they come to my brow. Pathetic, really. :(
But. GRADUATION!
Before Graduation I went to Brunch with a huge group of family members. It was a blast. I was given presents, one of which was this wacky pen:
If you smack it, it starts flashing colors. Like those bouncy balls. I was hiding behind my hand because I was laughing too hard. I also got some awesome stuff, like nutella/vanilla swirl spread, and Pomegranite juice concentrate and some candies and a seal set. It was fun!
Then I graduated. No pics of that. But I have post graduation pics. However, I don't want to post those.
So as I mentioned, I work at the school now with a great friend of mine as my coworker. It is nice, but there is this lingering feeling of "this will soon end" and "I have graduated, but it is made unreal by the fact that I am still here." I worked for the school last summer. When it really hit me was when I realized I never registered for classes at the end of this term. Sadness!!
Soon I will post in a new blog (or two, one for professional look the other to mess around), yet to be created because I just haven't done it yet. It will include the post-grad craziness, new job stuff, random musings, cooking and art experiments, wedding stuff, and general fun stuff. (That was lots of stuff, I know.)
Until then, Adieu!
This is the sixty-first (and second to last) post here, the last will be the notification to the one person who stalks me to watch another blog instead of this one. I am thinking of moving to Wordpress. Why? Because it looks shiny and has more sophisticated options.
So, as of last Sunday I am a graduate! I have passed the four years of arduous work for a shiny piece of paper that says I learned shit. The said piece of paper is on my desk in its red leather book. The cap and tassel and Hawk feather are put away safely, and the gown is a crumpled mess waiting to be cleaned and stored away.
All in all it was pretty fun. The speakers were interesting and one (I think was a sociobiologist of sorts) was talking about how there were these hairless apes marching in lines with fabric-wrapped squares stuck on their heads. Made Graduation sound ridiculous, but that is okay. I was told that it really is more for the parents. However, I felt it was kind of for me, too. It marked the end of one chapter (though it is kind of dragging on working at the school and all) and the beginning of my life as an adult.
That last thought thoroughly terrifies me. And to make things better (or worse) I am getting married soon, so I will be taking two HUGE steps into adulthood. I guess having an apartment and having to pay all my own bills was one step, but I had classes as well. I guess caring for two felines is another type of growing up, but they are fuzzy balls of happiness and fun and I don't count them the same as one would count children.
I had a moment that made me sad. My little sister (next one down), EBean, is having a baby in only a few short months. I will be married. The last of the oldest four of us is going to college. Despite the two smallest still being in elementary school, I remember when they were born, not to mention they will soon be taller than me and that is tragically unfair. I blame genetics for this cruel twist of things. They are not yet teens and they come to my brow. Pathetic, really. :(
But. GRADUATION!
Before Graduation I went to Brunch with a huge group of family members. It was a blast. I was given presents, one of which was this wacky pen:
If you smack it, it starts flashing colors. Like those bouncy balls. I was hiding behind my hand because I was laughing too hard. I also got some awesome stuff, like nutella/vanilla swirl spread, and Pomegranite juice concentrate and some candies and a seal set. It was fun!
Then I graduated. No pics of that. But I have post graduation pics. However, I don't want to post those.
So as I mentioned, I work at the school now with a great friend of mine as my coworker. It is nice, but there is this lingering feeling of "this will soon end" and "I have graduated, but it is made unreal by the fact that I am still here." I worked for the school last summer. When it really hit me was when I realized I never registered for classes at the end of this term. Sadness!!
Soon I will post in a new blog (or two, one for professional look the other to mess around), yet to be created because I just haven't done it yet. It will include the post-grad craziness, new job stuff, random musings, cooking and art experiments, wedding stuff, and general fun stuff. (That was lots of stuff, I know.)
Until then, Adieu!
Thursday, May 13, 2010
almost the last post
For those who have followed me (that would be the one of you), I am sad to announce this is almost my last post here. I graduate on Sunday from my college Alma Mater. Four years were entirely too short and I cried a lot last night writing sappy "until we meet again" letters to five very special people in my college career.
I don't know if it was covered in my last post, but a lot has happened recently. Last Tuesday (as in the 4th, the day my thesis was due in its entirety) I went to a party for the people in my major at my Adviser's house. It was a lot of fun and began with me arriving to help two professors carry in two large ice chests full of beer (one had 1/2 soft drinks). There were a cumulative four bottles of wine. Oh, and someone brought a huge thing of Gin (I think a professor!) so there were gin and tonics... and some other alcohol I couldn't pronounce but am guessing by the square bottle and multiple dares to drink it that the liquid was hard liquor. So I spent a few hours joking and conversing with my fellow soon-to-be-EES-graduates and professors for a while. I also tasted a really good recipe I am going to have to try: sautee chopped onion, add corn and fry, add smoked salmon and fry, add rice, fry a bit longer, season to taste. It had a bit too much pepper for my taste, so I would scale it down. But it sounds like a fun thing to try to cook.
Thesis is in. Environmental Chemistry quizzes are caught up and final paper is in. Medieval Intellectual History paper on Dante's Paradisio is in. I am completely done and have a few days to chill out till Graduation. And
Monday promptly thereafter I go to work. I am assured full time work through the summer, and I can work at the school until the first day of the next school year. After that, however, I definitely need a job job. Like a career job. I already told my summer boss that he was a jumping point and that I would leave when I had a full-time job at an other company. He was completely understanding! I am excited.
As I said, I graduate on Sunday. I have Senior Soiree (a party WU puts on) tonight, then tomorrow (I think) a final party with the friends. Saturday I kind of chill out and hang around, no big plans for Saturday. I think I'll go to the market. It is really fun. Sunday my family comes and we have brunch at a really good restaurant in town. Then I line up at 1:45 for my 3pm Graduation! A friend's dad arranged a party for us afterward, so I will be attending that. I am really excited!
Unfortunately that puts me in a frenzy to clean my thesis-caused-neglected house. : (
There is much to do and now less time to do it in. BTW, this is my 60th post.
~N
I don't know if it was covered in my last post, but a lot has happened recently. Last Tuesday (as in the 4th, the day my thesis was due in its entirety) I went to a party for the people in my major at my Adviser's house. It was a lot of fun and began with me arriving to help two professors carry in two large ice chests full of beer (one had 1/2 soft drinks). There were a cumulative four bottles of wine. Oh, and someone brought a huge thing of Gin (I think a professor!) so there were gin and tonics... and some other alcohol I couldn't pronounce but am guessing by the square bottle and multiple dares to drink it that the liquid was hard liquor. So I spent a few hours joking and conversing with my fellow soon-to-be-EES-graduates and professors for a while. I also tasted a really good recipe I am going to have to try: sautee chopped onion, add corn and fry, add smoked salmon and fry, add rice, fry a bit longer, season to taste. It had a bit too much pepper for my taste, so I would scale it down. But it sounds like a fun thing to try to cook.
Thesis is in. Environmental Chemistry quizzes are caught up and final paper is in. Medieval Intellectual History paper on Dante's Paradisio is in. I am completely done and have a few days to chill out till Graduation. And
Monday promptly thereafter I go to work. I am assured full time work through the summer, and I can work at the school until the first day of the next school year. After that, however, I definitely need a job job. Like a career job. I already told my summer boss that he was a jumping point and that I would leave when I had a full-time job at an other company. He was completely understanding! I am excited.
As I said, I graduate on Sunday. I have Senior Soiree (a party WU puts on) tonight, then tomorrow (I think) a final party with the friends. Saturday I kind of chill out and hang around, no big plans for Saturday. I think I'll go to the market. It is really fun. Sunday my family comes and we have brunch at a really good restaurant in town. Then I line up at 1:45 for my 3pm Graduation! A friend's dad arranged a party for us afterward, so I will be attending that. I am really excited!
Unfortunately that puts me in a frenzy to clean my thesis-caused-neglected house. : (
There is much to do and now less time to do it in. BTW, this is my 60th post.
~N
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