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