An open letter to lj friends
Hello all.
Graduation is soon! Yay! I finished my capstone, and now have one paper and an independent project for Macalester and shit for my ASL class which i may or may not do...I'm really not to worried. i fucking wrote a capstone on a subject that has all of like two articles written on it. I fucking rock in my little trans/disabled/draging bubble and that's all i need to know. Besides, I'm going to graduate. Somehow...it's just going to happen.
In the meantime my brother is visiting me tomorrow and I am super excited to see him. He will only be here for a few hours but it will be nice. My parents are coming for graduation and my housemates jackie, Graham, and i got into an awkward conversation because jackie and I just wish our families weren't coming and Graham (in typical Graham fashion of being unaware of what he's saying) was incredibly happy to have his family come and was talking about how it will be OK because we'll just giggle and eat and then they'll go away. And Jackie and I were like "no graham, we will both cry and slam doors and then they'll go away. There will be no giggling." And it's true. And that's OK.
yesterday was "harambe!" the multicultural celebration, and all of us seniors got little medals (medals? medals.) to wear at graduation. They have a pillar on them and then it says "multiculturalism" which reminds me of the drawings we did two years ago of the "missing pillar" of multiculturalism. We called him Pilar (there's an accent, you just can't see it) and put his face on milk cartons and stuff. It was amusing, and now I guess we've found him!(really? i dunno). But it was nice to be in that room and see all the first years and sophomores and juniors and faculty and staff and be like "you know, Mac may be a shithole in many ways but these are some amazing people right here (and really attractive!)and after i graduate...things will be OK."
I/we have many drag shows coming up in for May and June and it should be exciting. I still work at the coffee shop, and am looking forward to doing manual labor and reading books and sorting through my life in these next couple of months. A mac-grad is starting a coffee shop in Minneapolis that's supposed to be activist based (50-mile radius food, fair trade coffee and meeting spaces for progressive groups I think). And I may apply because he promised to pay a living wage which in Minneapolis is $11.50 an hour, although who knows if that's actually the wage he's paying. I may choose to apply to grad schools and things like that, but I feel that I need time to re-position myself after all the shit of college. Isn't it odd how much shit goes down in college? It's a lot, by the way. A lot of shit.
Loves, Mik
Graduation is soon! Yay! I finished my capstone, and now have one paper and an independent project for Macalester and shit for my ASL class which i may or may not do...I'm really not to worried. i fucking wrote a capstone on a subject that has all of like two articles written on it. I fucking rock in my little trans/disabled/draging bubble and that's all i need to know. Besides, I'm going to graduate. Somehow...it's just going to happen.
In the meantime my brother is visiting me tomorrow and I am super excited to see him. He will only be here for a few hours but it will be nice. My parents are coming for graduation and my housemates jackie, Graham, and i got into an awkward conversation because jackie and I just wish our families weren't coming and Graham (in typical Graham fashion of being unaware of what he's saying) was incredibly happy to have his family come and was talking about how it will be OK because we'll just giggle and eat and then they'll go away. And Jackie and I were like "no graham, we will both cry and slam doors and then they'll go away. There will be no giggling." And it's true. And that's OK.
yesterday was "harambe!" the multicultural celebration, and all of us seniors got little medals (medals? medals.) to wear at graduation. They have a pillar on them and then it says "multiculturalism" which reminds me of the drawings we did two years ago of the "missing pillar" of multiculturalism. We called him Pilar (there's an accent, you just can't see it) and put his face on milk cartons and stuff. It was amusing, and now I guess we've found him!(really? i dunno). But it was nice to be in that room and see all the first years and sophomores and juniors and faculty and staff and be like "you know, Mac may be a shithole in many ways but these are some amazing people right here (and really attractive!)and after i graduate...things will be OK."
I/we have many drag shows coming up in for May and June and it should be exciting. I still work at the coffee shop, and am looking forward to doing manual labor and reading books and sorting through my life in these next couple of months. A mac-grad is starting a coffee shop in Minneapolis that's supposed to be activist based (50-mile radius food, fair trade coffee and meeting spaces for progressive groups I think). And I may apply because he promised to pay a living wage which in Minneapolis is $11.50 an hour, although who knows if that's actually the wage he's paying. I may choose to apply to grad schools and things like that, but I feel that I need time to re-position myself after all the shit of college. Isn't it odd how much shit goes down in college? It's a lot, by the way. A lot of shit.
Loves, Mik