Jun 06, 2005 20:26
i woke up early. took a shower, shaved etc. i left the house. i got there late but it didn't really matter because at 9:30 everyone was just sitting around waiting. i brought my DS but i never took it out because i didn't want people sitting next to me to ask to play it. ok people "my DS is like my dick, i don't want other guys touching it." that's such a good line. anyways we came out, blah blah blah, boringness, speeches etc. chris's speech was unique in that the ending was clever. since he couldn't say "god bless you," he said "i just want to leave you with one thought," and sneezed which implied the "god bless you." when the honors graduates were supposed to go up, i didn't. ok seriously they asked all three groups of honors graduates to come up at the same time and assemble themselves. that is the lamest idea of organization ever. they should do each level seperately. sooo, i got up towards the middle of the magna cum laude name calling. i walked through the middle of my row and found a spot in line. it was pretty akward but ryan bruce came up as well, so at least i wasn't alone. i got my cum laude medal. i got a decent cheer. that's the only part i was worried about for graduation, not getting a good applause. i heard someone shout my name, that made me happy. in return i cheered on my friends, and ignored people that i didn't like as they walked on stage. while waiting to exit the auditorium in the metro centre i talked to paula and anna. paula and i hugged and then i hugged anna and we all congradulated each other. i chatted with tony, katie, james, and josh on the way out. katie and james told me they were looking for my mom in the crowd but couldn't find her. when i finally saw her i asked her if she was going to say hi to them and she said "oh i didn't even recognize you, you both dyed your hair black." good times. my mom took me to my relatives who congradulated me. my brother was with them only because my mom made him come because she made me come to his. i would have preferred that he not come. he didn't even say a word to me there. he and i don't talk. i don't remember the last time either of us uttered a word to each other, and we live in the same house. while talking to my aunts my good buddy sarah came up and we hugged and congradulated each other. i then went to look for my dad. i called my step mom's cell phone and in mid call they poked me in the back and told me not to move. a stick up eh? i suppose so. we chatted and decided to go to old chicago to eat. before that we'd pick up my grandma. grandpa didn't want to come i guess. on the way out i stopped and hugged cheryl and then lost my dad, but found found him a short while later.
picked up grandma, i got a graduation card from her and my grandpa. then we went to eat. food was good. at the table my dad said i was the first one of the boyds to graduate cum laude. my cousins brian george are pretty smart, so i wonder if he realized that they might have graduated with higher honers than me back in the day. i saw aric and leah there. when we were leaving i congradulated both of them and aric shook my hand and said "i'm sure i'll see you around." i thought that was nice of him.
we took my grandma home and walked around their backyard a bit because my dad wanted to take some extra ferns that she didn't want.
i came home and slept around 1:30 and slept until 5. my mom brought my pictures from the last day of school home. i put them in a photo album. i'll be sizing them and putting them in a yahoo album sometime. if i don't do anything this weekend, which is probably what will happen, then i'll finish working on my online albums.
caitlin called me up shortly after telling me to come to colin's house because his party was going on. i explained that i needed a ride because i didn't have a car and she said she'd arrange for someone to come pick me up. they sent liz. for the record she and i aren't on the best of terms, but that was a long time ago. we haven't talked for two years, but i think i'm over it. i just think it would be better if we weren't friends. she makes me so mad sometimes. all she does is argue. err, did i don't know if she still does. anyways she picked me up and apologized that she was sent. it didn't really bother me. we small talked and shortly reached colin's house.
i got in and colin told me that he and the others sent liz because they knew that we weren't really fond of each other and thought it would be funny. the party was fun. i stayed well after the 8o'clock end time, but i was called home later by my mom. i was at a table chatting with colin's mom, liz and mikel's mom, colin, liz, sam, mikel, colin's cousin jake, and jake's mom when she called. she said the word shit and i said "don't swear," and they looked at me. i said ok a few times then hung up. i got up, they looked at me and asked if everything was alright, and i said i needed to leave. liz and mikel's mom offered a me a ride but i declined and said my mom was coming. colin told me sometime that she and my mom met while my parents were at the party. he reminded me of the time that my mom angrily burst over their house looking for me without even saying hi or introducing herself. i think it was because i wasn't supposed to leave without a note or something. i said my goodbyes and left.
the next day was my party. my mom was hectic all day. i got yelled at plenty for anything she could think of a half-assed reason to. of my friends, jon, ross, eric, david, sam, and colin came. not a whole lot, but it was still good. we palayed pool, darts, listened to music, watched the mummy and goldfinger, ate and played some smash brothers as well as eye-toy. my mom got a cake that said Game Box on some laptop looking machine with a nintendo 64 controller. women are so clueless when it comes to video games. people started leaving. and eventually it was just me and joey. the 5th grader son of a friend of the family. he's pretty smart for his age. we talked about video games. his mom and i chatted in the room where my poster of pictures was. she explained that graduation was a bittersweet thing. after a few seconds i replied with "no, it's just sweet." she said i should look into going away to college because her daughter did and she told her that she's glad she did. i wish i could go away too, but i don't wanna put anymore financial pressure on my mom. she already has enough going on. i don't wanna accumulate any of my own either through student loans. i'd hate to finish college and start out my new life in debt. i'm very careful when it comes to expenses. i watch my money a lot when i know i'm going to be needing it.
oh yea, at colin's party i told rachel to find out what i got on my Don Quijote test. she forgot to ask but sam remembered that i asked that of rachel and so she also asked. well sam just told me that Mr. Salley wouldn't tell her because i didn't invite him to my graduation party. on the last day he said he would try to come to my graduation party when i stopped by his room. i just gave a quick nod of my head and said alright. what was i supposed to say? "sorry sal, i didn't give you an invitation." i don't understand why he would get mad over not being invited. he has so many to go to anyways. he also said that he and his family observe the death of his father on the day that i would be having mine. after thinking about it, i wonder if maybe he had a gift for me already? maybe he picked stuff like that out in advance? who knows. well if anyone sees him, could you please explain to him that i love him and that it was just a party for family and a few of my close friends, so he shouldn't take offense if he has. despite those reasons i still feel guilty. my mom wouldn't have let me invite a teacher though anyways :-\
my first day of college was today. it was wonderful. a boy like me could get used to a life like this. ok i went to work at 8:30 until 10:30. then i had my class at 10:50 until 12:20 i think. then i had to go back to work at 12:45 until 7. i was busy the whole day but i don't feel exhausted at all. a boy like me could get used to a life like this.
my composition class is wonderful. i know one person in there, foad. that's better than i expected. i helped some guy at work that morning find his books and it turns out he is in the same class as me. when we were in groups introducing outselves i told my group that i worked at the campus bookstore and he said i was very helpful too. that made me happy. when his turn was over i told him that he looked like keanu reeves. he chuckled and said he's got that before. we played a game. it was the three groups against each other in some isaac asimof language knowledge game. naturally my group won. they consulted my advice. it seems that i'm establishing a presence in the class. that's good. one question was how long is the human gestation period. i blurted 6 hours out to my group. they laughed this girl in my group said 9 months. then i realized my mistake. it was GESTATION not DIGESTION. that was a good laugh. then of course came the female comments on how they wished it were 6 hours. anyways, about the teacher. mr. walters seems like a teacher i will like. he's really into his stuff. he gave us a linguistics survey. i think i did really well on it. he gave the directions orally since it was pretty much spell this word and blah blah... the first one was advisor. i guess he was expecting people to put adviser or advisar, but i didn't fall into that i remembered for some reason that it was an or ending. at least i hope it is. another one was accidentally, the incedentally. i think i spelled incedentally wrong. i put incidentally? shit i don't remember what i put, maybe i was right. anyways then there was a sentance "It's all right." i remember reading in the back of my english book this year that alright isn't a real word. it should be two seperate words "all right." then there was the word musically. i think i only put one l on that though. i might have gotten it wrong. then he asked us to put accidentally and incidentally again. maybe he was thinking our spellings would change after writing other words. then there was some other ones that i don't remember. we also had to fill out some form about ourselves and english related stuff like favorite author and aspect of english. i put grammar as my favorite aspect, and it turned out that we'll be doing a lot of sentence mechanics etc. he said if we're not into that sort of thing then it's probably not the class for us. one of the reasons i like writing though is that i like being able to manipulate the words to do anything i want. that was pretty much the same thing he said that we'd be doing, manipulating sentences to do different things. i think i may end up being a teachers pet 0_0
after class i had one of my lunches on a bench outside the building. i listened to some Cursive and ate.
i went back to work. we had a new girl today...actually two new girls and 2 other new girls that i had met last week. it's just me and a bunch of girls. no guys work there. don't get me wrong, i'm not complaining but i'd like at least one other guy there. elizabeth gave me a bunch of free FHM magazines that we were throwing out. i've got a big stack of them sitting on my counter. if anyone wants one come to my house and take one. haha i thought it was very considerate of her since it has chicks in bikinis in it. she put a stack of like...20 in my locker haha.
P.S. the new finch album and avenged sevenfold album come out tomorrow!!!!