I'm such a child.
To-day, on my first day as an SJS graduate, I went to school.
I arrived near the end of lunch (there is simply no way I am ever going to come to SJS again at 7 a.m.). The first thing I did was find an "Alum" sticker. I went to the Mother's Desk, where the mother directed me to a drawer wherein were the visitors' log and some sheets of stickers. After I signed in, I rummaged through the sheets and finally found one with stickers that said "Alum" - as opposed to "Visitor" - and put one on.
A lot of people - both students and faculty - commented on my sticker. The overall reaction was a combination of disbelief, incredulity, and amusement. Mr. Ritter passed me in the hall with a nod and saw the sticker and then did a double take.
"I cannot believe you have that! You might as well plaster it on your forehead!" he exclaimed.
After I had my sticker, I picked up my yearbook and went around looking for people to sign it. The first people to do so were Will H., Zach C., and my little brother (they were the first only because they were right there when I picked up the yearbook). At any rate, I walked around school and came in for The Review and dropped by the administrative offices, and therefore I have signatures from some teachers and a lot of friends. So, my yearbook is almost full, and I still don't have signatures from my senior friends... tres sad! :( I'll have to add an "addendum" sheet or two, I think.
Then Morgan and Justin and I went to have sushi and to see The Da Vinci Code (more on that later). This, I realised later, is rather fitting. I don't expect to come to SJS again until August (excepting this coming Tuesday because although to-day I cleaned out my locker and my Review box, I still have some books that I shouldn't leave in the Review room), so it's only right that I "end" my SJS years with two of my favourite "underclassmen" in a sushi-and-a-movie tradition that we started when they were still underclassmen! (Morgan - and Justin, if you see this - you will always be my "underclassmen"!)
Later - and this should be embarrassing but it's not - I started to realise how much I'll miss SJS and the friends I've made there, students and teachers alike, and then I started to cry. I'm such a sentimental gnork, but I don't care. I'm going to miss SJS so much. Knowing that I won't see my friends almost every day next year - that's frightening. And knowing that I'll be gone until August, starting next Saturday, is also somewhat unnverving. I'm super-excited about going to Philmont and Mizzou and making new friends there, but still.
When I saw Mr. Parrish for the first time to-day and when he saw me, he stopped as if he'd walked into a wall and said, "Chris! How's it going?" Then he asked what it's like to have graduated. I said that it seems as if nothing has changed; he laughed and said, "Well, that's because you're here at school." He was probably right... because right now, it seems as if everything is going to change!
I arrived near the end of lunch (there is simply no way I am ever going to come to SJS again at 7 a.m.). The first thing I did was find an "Alum" sticker. I went to the Mother's Desk, where the mother directed me to a drawer wherein were the visitors' log and some sheets of stickers. After I signed in, I rummaged through the sheets and finally found one with stickers that said "Alum" - as opposed to "Visitor" - and put one on.
A lot of people - both students and faculty - commented on my sticker. The overall reaction was a combination of disbelief, incredulity, and amusement. Mr. Ritter passed me in the hall with a nod and saw the sticker and then did a double take.
"I cannot believe you have that! You might as well plaster it on your forehead!" he exclaimed.
After I had my sticker, I picked up my yearbook and went around looking for people to sign it. The first people to do so were Will H., Zach C., and my little brother (they were the first only because they were right there when I picked up the yearbook). At any rate, I walked around school and came in for The Review and dropped by the administrative offices, and therefore I have signatures from some teachers and a lot of friends. So, my yearbook is almost full, and I still don't have signatures from my senior friends... tres sad! :( I'll have to add an "addendum" sheet or two, I think.
Then Morgan and Justin and I went to have sushi and to see The Da Vinci Code (more on that later). This, I realised later, is rather fitting. I don't expect to come to SJS again until August (excepting this coming Tuesday because although to-day I cleaned out my locker and my Review box, I still have some books that I shouldn't leave in the Review room), so it's only right that I "end" my SJS years with two of my favourite "underclassmen" in a sushi-and-a-movie tradition that we started when they were still underclassmen! (Morgan - and Justin, if you see this - you will always be my "underclassmen"!)
Later - and this should be embarrassing but it's not - I started to realise how much I'll miss SJS and the friends I've made there, students and teachers alike, and then I started to cry. I'm such a sentimental gnork, but I don't care. I'm going to miss SJS so much. Knowing that I won't see my friends almost every day next year - that's frightening. And knowing that I'll be gone until August, starting next Saturday, is also somewhat unnverving. I'm super-excited about going to Philmont and Mizzou and making new friends there, but still.
When I saw Mr. Parrish for the first time to-day and when he saw me, he stopped as if he'd walked into a wall and said, "Chris! How's it going?" Then he asked what it's like to have graduated. I said that it seems as if nothing has changed; he laughed and said, "Well, that's because you're here at school." He was probably right... because right now, it seems as if everything is going to change!