I don't know if it was good sleep, but it was hard and much needed ( Read more... )

If my math is right (and it might not be), I've had somewhere in the neighborhood of four hours of sleep out of the last 41. I don't think that's a good average ( Read more... )

As a wet behind the ears freshman in 1996, I think the idea of having my own refridgerator was among the more appealling aspects of going off to college. How crazy is that? Going from home, where food always magically appeared in the cabinets and fridge, to having to buy the stuff seemed very grown up to me at the time. I thought back to those ( Read more... )

Last month, I was on campus for my brother's graduation. As much as I like ( Read more... )

It's raining here ( Read more... )

Jessie and I took a road trip today to watch some folks we know from college get married. It was about four-hours from Oakdale, but there were plenty of people from there in attendance. In a way, it was wierd because a realy big chunk of the people I know from school were there. I made the comment that I saw more Oakdale people at a wedding in a ( Read more... )

I drove the hour and a half to Oakdale like I was supposed to today so that I could some one final freelance project for the newspaper. When I arrived, I was told that nothing was ready for me and that I'd have to come back Wednesday. Ugh. They told me to come today... And they had my phone number, so they could have called and stopped me from ( Read more... )

Hello, maybe you know me. I'm a college graduate ( Read more... )

I'm awake at 8:00 a.m. and I *didn't* stay up all night. (Insert crowd gasp here.) Actually, I'm up because I've gotta drive to school for graduation practice. Yes, I'm rehearsing to graduate. Because tomorrow... And I'm not sure if you've heard or not... But I'M GRADUATING COLLEGE. hee ( Read more... )

The dean's office called shortly after West Wing came on. The news was good. The one class I was worried about turned out just fine. All B's for me (except for a C in the worrisome class). I'm graduating. I'm outta here. Hot damn! Hell yeah! Boo-yow!

I'd celebrate... But I think I did enough of that last night.