I Share With Complete Strangers My Most Personal of Pleasures
Five days removed from one of the best series (for now) finales in the history of American sitcoms, I still can't seem to get over how excellent and appropriate the last episode of Scrubs ended up being. I have watched the episode over five times, and the ending scene more than 10, and still, it has the same effect as the first. I continue to be in awe.
In other news in my life involving things coming to an end, today was graduation day for my senior friends here at Syracuse. Graduations are always a difficult time for everybody involved. It's a day that should be filled with joy, relief and happiness for the graduate, but rarely is. Instead, regardless of whether its high school or college, the end result is usually pride and jubilation on the parts of the onlookers, while the graduates are left with regrets, sadness and depression. There is also a sense of pride in there, but that happiness of accomplishment does not come without the immediate realization that there's nothing left to do. I saw this on the faces of my friends. In their smiles, their eyes, their reactions to the classic question- "So, how do you feel?" If it were me, I'd reply honestly. "Well, I actually feel a bit upset right now. My childhood is officially over, by every measure imaginable, and now I have to go and be an adult. I'm not happy about this, nor am I encouraged by the fact that the friends whom I have grown so close to these past four years will now be heading their separate directions to forge new, different, and hopefully successful lives. I may never see some of these people again, after spending many-a-day and -night with them. So for that, I am indeed, not happy or pleased. However, I am proud of what I've done, and will forge on." Admittedly, I may not always be concise, but I'm going to tell it like it is, and if it were me, that's probably what I'd tell anyone who'd care to listen.
So now I'm a senior. This is not something I'm all that enthused by, but I've got another entire year to bitch about that fact, and knowing me, I will, without a doubt, do so. However, this will not be without me enjoying every second of my final year here to the fullest- taking in the sights, sounds, smells, people and things that have, to this point, made my college experience so worthwhile, and will surely continue to do so. I'm encouraged, yet scared. Excited, yet frightened. Nostalgic, yet ready to move on. It is this hesitance that makes times like these in our lives what they are. At these crossroads, we may choose one path or another, rolling the dice on whatever selection we may make, and hoping it works for the best. For my sake, and the sake of those I know and love, I hope it works out.
I can't promise that this is the last mention of Scrubs here for awhile, so just make of this what it is. I'll try to use other images...maybe.
Tetris on Facebook has become an obsession of late. Some music suggestions to use while playing:
-Passion Pit's Manners
-Super Mash Bros.' Fuck Bitches. Get Euros.
-Danger Mouse and Sparklehorses' Dark Night of the Soul (forthcoming)
-Foreign Born's Person to Person (forthcoming)
This Week's Top 10
1. The Book of Love, Peter Gabriel
2. I Want You To Know, Dinosaur Jr.
3. American Boy (Feat. Kanye West), Estelle
4. Superman, Lazlo Bane
5. Stay With Me, Faces
6. Moth's Wings, Passion Pit
7. Two Weeks, Grizzly Bear
8. Skinny Love, Bon Iver
9. Question, Rhett Miller
10. I Am the Walrus, The Beatles
In other news in my life involving things coming to an end, today was graduation day for my senior friends here at Syracuse. Graduations are always a difficult time for everybody involved. It's a day that should be filled with joy, relief and happiness for the graduate, but rarely is. Instead, regardless of whether its high school or college, the end result is usually pride and jubilation on the parts of the onlookers, while the graduates are left with regrets, sadness and depression. There is also a sense of pride in there, but that happiness of accomplishment does not come without the immediate realization that there's nothing left to do. I saw this on the faces of my friends. In their smiles, their eyes, their reactions to the classic question- "So, how do you feel?" If it were me, I'd reply honestly. "Well, I actually feel a bit upset right now. My childhood is officially over, by every measure imaginable, and now I have to go and be an adult. I'm not happy about this, nor am I encouraged by the fact that the friends whom I have grown so close to these past four years will now be heading their separate directions to forge new, different, and hopefully successful lives. I may never see some of these people again, after spending many-a-day and -night with them. So for that, I am indeed, not happy or pleased. However, I am proud of what I've done, and will forge on." Admittedly, I may not always be concise, but I'm going to tell it like it is, and if it were me, that's probably what I'd tell anyone who'd care to listen.
So now I'm a senior. This is not something I'm all that enthused by, but I've got another entire year to bitch about that fact, and knowing me, I will, without a doubt, do so. However, this will not be without me enjoying every second of my final year here to the fullest- taking in the sights, sounds, smells, people and things that have, to this point, made my college experience so worthwhile, and will surely continue to do so. I'm encouraged, yet scared. Excited, yet frightened. Nostalgic, yet ready to move on. It is this hesitance that makes times like these in our lives what they are. At these crossroads, we may choose one path or another, rolling the dice on whatever selection we may make, and hoping it works for the best. For my sake, and the sake of those I know and love, I hope it works out.
I can't promise that this is the last mention of Scrubs here for awhile, so just make of this what it is. I'll try to use other images...maybe.
Tetris on Facebook has become an obsession of late. Some music suggestions to use while playing:
-Passion Pit's Manners
-Super Mash Bros.' Fuck Bitches. Get Euros.
-Danger Mouse and Sparklehorses' Dark Night of the Soul (forthcoming)
-Foreign Born's Person to Person (forthcoming)
This Week's Top 10
1. The Book of Love, Peter Gabriel
2. I Want You To Know, Dinosaur Jr.
3. American Boy (Feat. Kanye West), Estelle
4. Superman, Lazlo Bane
5. Stay With Me, Faces
6. Moth's Wings, Passion Pit
7. Two Weeks, Grizzly Bear
8. Skinny Love, Bon Iver
9. Question, Rhett Miller
10. I Am the Walrus, The Beatles