you may now flip your tassel to the left.
DECEMBER 18TH.
DECEMBER 18TH.
OH HOW I LOVE DECEMBER 18TH. SEEING THAT DATE MAKES ME HAPPY EVERY YEAR, BUT THIS YEAR IS THE BEST YEAR BECAUSE IT IS MY GRADUATION YEAR!!!!!!!!!!11111111111 ASLDFKJLKJDFLJDSLKJLJKSD;LKJDSF.
I AM DONE WITH SCHOOL. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL FEELING. I WORE THE STUPID HAT AND ITCHY ROBE AND I SAT AROUND IN AN AUDITORIUM UNDER THE WATCHFUL GAZE OF STRANGERS, LISTENING TO GLURGEY SPEECHES PRAISING THE PRE-EMINENCE AND LISTWORTHINESS OF MY UNIVERSITY. BUT IIIIIII DON'T CAAAAAARE. I'M GRADUATED!!!! LET'S JUST HOPE DR. J GIVES ME THE B HE GUESSED I'D OBTAINED IN HIS COURSE AND I GET As IN HISTORY AND POETRY LIKE I SUSPECT I WILL SO THAT THEY'LL MAIL ME MY REAL DIPLOMA IN JANUARY.
I also got to wear my gold MEDALLION with an ugly white RIBBON that signified my Magna Cum Laude status, which means my grades were AWESOME. But not too awesome. No one wants to be one of those 4.0 losers with no soul.
I was a LITTLE disappointed that us brown-tasseled writers graduated with Bachelor's of Fine Arts degrees, but had no specification that we're in Writer's Workshop, even though the actual drawin' Arts people got specifications in the book. LAMESAUCE. WE ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT. :'(
So yeah! Happy birthday to me! I'm now 24, which divides by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 12. That's pretty cool, huh? Something that weirds me out: my parents got married when they were 24. I AM SO NOT READY TO BE MARRIED. JESUS CHRIST. I don't think I'll ever be. I'm a rebel.
After the ceremony, Mom, Dad, Hollysmeg and I came back home and I opened GIFTS AND CARDS. I sent out my grad announcements sometime last week and actually got a card from my mom's cousin Richard and his wife Bobbie with a $35 check inside! Very nice. I'm gonna try and write them a card this weekend.
In my graduation card and birthday cards, Mom & Dad wrote how proud they are of me. <33 They gave me some cash (as they always do in birthday cards) and wrote me a REALLY GENEROUS check that I'm going to stick in my savings account for future World Travels. Or whatever.
My Graduation Present is this awesome brandy-colored leather satchel with a removable laptop case in it and this Cross pen-and-pencil set that's pink. Dad was all YOU CAN PUT YOUR MANUSCRIPTS IN THERE. AND YOU GOT PENS BECAUSE YOU'RE A WRITER. LOLS. I found that funny. It's such a neat bag! I'm going to use it on my travels and feel Totally Cultured.
For my birthday (I couldn't wait until after dinner to open my giftses, since we had to stay home to watch Charles Gibson's final nightly news broadcast--I liked how in the montage of famous people talking about his work, there were two Muppets shrieking about his leaving and one said, "Say it isn't so!" and the other said, "This is CRAZY TALK!" We couldn't stop lolling. Also, the penultimate star before the President was ... Kermit the Frog wearing a trenchcoat), I received from Mom and Sibling:
- The Fame Monster by Lady GaGa. OMG FUCK YES. I made everyone listen to "Telephone" and "Alejandro" and "Bad Romance" in the car, 'cos I'm a dick.
- Arrested Development season 1 on DVD. SWEET. So watching it next week.
- This heathered-grey and black-striped sweater with a weird boingy elastic scarf! I kept admiring it at Target. Which is, coincidentally, where they did all their shopping for me. Tee hee.
- Stretchy two-row rhinestone bracelet that I have coveted. I LOVE RHINESTONES. COSTUME JEWELRY IS THE BEST.
- Pair of sterling-silver round stud earrings with little crystals in them! THEY LOOK LIKE DISCOBALLS ON MY EARS.
- Black pleather pleated handbag with a black pleather bow on it and two little handles. It's from the children's section. I loved it and Sibling remembered! <3
- Cozy lightweight plum sweater that I'm wearing now!
WEWTTTT. SWEET. Then we went to Cheesecake Factory and it was lolarious for whatever reason (the waiter came by at one point and handed my dad a knife, all, "Here you go, sir," and wandered off again, and Dad just stared at it and then turned it in towards his chest. I think the waiter mumbled something about it being for his steak, but it was rather inaudible so it all just seemed bizarre). The food was good but way too filling. I got a piece of banana cream cheesecake to take home and I just now ate it. It was pretty divine. Mom baked a Devil's food cake for me that we're going to light with candles and eat tomorrow or Sunday--whenever we feel like looking at food again. The waiters gathered round and sang Happy Birthday for me and I blew out a candle shoved into a tiny cup of decadent fudge and cream. Smeg and Dad had to help me eat it because I had Restaurant Food Fatigue. But yay! Dinner! Singing! People representin' for me!
Ughhg I was going to give y'all some pictures, but I can't seem to get them off my phone so you'll just have to deal with text for now. My mom took pictures (oh, so many awful pictures of me looking like a bloated whale in my robe), so I'll get those off later. Or maybe never! Knowing me, probably the latter. I hate getting pictures transferred to the internets.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. *Alex James in NMTB* NOW I'M THIS USELESS TAMBOURINE-PLAYING CHEESE IDIOT! /reference no one gets. God, I love that show. I JUST SAW THE DAVID TENNANT ONE FUCK IT WAS AMAZING HE IS SO HOT AND SCOTTISH AND FUNNY. <333
J.
DECEMBER 18TH.
OH HOW I LOVE DECEMBER 18TH. SEEING THAT DATE MAKES ME HAPPY EVERY YEAR, BUT THIS YEAR IS THE BEST YEAR BECAUSE IT IS MY GRADUATION YEAR!!!!!!!!!!11111111111 ASLDFKJLKJDFLJDSLKJLJKSD;LKJDSF.
I AM DONE WITH SCHOOL. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL FEELING. I WORE THE STUPID HAT AND ITCHY ROBE AND I SAT AROUND IN AN AUDITORIUM UNDER THE WATCHFUL GAZE OF STRANGERS, LISTENING TO GLURGEY SPEECHES PRAISING THE PRE-EMINENCE AND LISTWORTHINESS OF MY UNIVERSITY. BUT IIIIIII DON'T CAAAAAARE. I'M GRADUATED!!!! LET'S JUST HOPE DR. J GIVES ME THE B HE GUESSED I'D OBTAINED IN HIS COURSE AND I GET As IN HISTORY AND POETRY LIKE I SUSPECT I WILL SO THAT THEY'LL MAIL ME MY REAL DIPLOMA IN JANUARY.
I also got to wear my gold MEDALLION with an ugly white RIBBON that signified my Magna Cum Laude status, which means my grades were AWESOME. But not too awesome. No one wants to be one of those 4.0 losers with no soul.
I was a LITTLE disappointed that us brown-tasseled writers graduated with Bachelor's of Fine Arts degrees, but had no specification that we're in Writer's Workshop, even though the actual drawin' Arts people got specifications in the book. LAMESAUCE. WE ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT. :'(
So yeah! Happy birthday to me! I'm now 24, which divides by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 12. That's pretty cool, huh? Something that weirds me out: my parents got married when they were 24. I AM SO NOT READY TO BE MARRIED. JESUS CHRIST. I don't think I'll ever be. I'm a rebel.
After the ceremony, Mom, Dad, Hollysmeg and I came back home and I opened GIFTS AND CARDS. I sent out my grad announcements sometime last week and actually got a card from my mom's cousin Richard and his wife Bobbie with a $35 check inside! Very nice. I'm gonna try and write them a card this weekend.
In my graduation card and birthday cards, Mom & Dad wrote how proud they are of me. <33 They gave me some cash (as they always do in birthday cards) and wrote me a REALLY GENEROUS check that I'm going to stick in my savings account for future World Travels. Or whatever.
My Graduation Present is this awesome brandy-colored leather satchel with a removable laptop case in it and this Cross pen-and-pencil set that's pink. Dad was all YOU CAN PUT YOUR MANUSCRIPTS IN THERE. AND YOU GOT PENS BECAUSE YOU'RE A WRITER. LOLS. I found that funny. It's such a neat bag! I'm going to use it on my travels and feel Totally Cultured.
For my birthday (I couldn't wait until after dinner to open my giftses, since we had to stay home to watch Charles Gibson's final nightly news broadcast--I liked how in the montage of famous people talking about his work, there were two Muppets shrieking about his leaving and one said, "Say it isn't so!" and the other said, "This is CRAZY TALK!" We couldn't stop lolling. Also, the penultimate star before the President was ... Kermit the Frog wearing a trenchcoat), I received from Mom and Sibling:
- The Fame Monster by Lady GaGa. OMG FUCK YES. I made everyone listen to "Telephone" and "Alejandro" and "Bad Romance" in the car, 'cos I'm a dick.
- Arrested Development season 1 on DVD. SWEET. So watching it next week.
- This heathered-grey and black-striped sweater with a weird boingy elastic scarf! I kept admiring it at Target. Which is, coincidentally, where they did all their shopping for me. Tee hee.
- Stretchy two-row rhinestone bracelet that I have coveted. I LOVE RHINESTONES. COSTUME JEWELRY IS THE BEST.
- Pair of sterling-silver round stud earrings with little crystals in them! THEY LOOK LIKE DISCOBALLS ON MY EARS.
- Black pleather pleated handbag with a black pleather bow on it and two little handles. It's from the children's section. I loved it and Sibling remembered! <3
- Cozy lightweight plum sweater that I'm wearing now!
WEWTTTT. SWEET. Then we went to Cheesecake Factory and it was lolarious for whatever reason (the waiter came by at one point and handed my dad a knife, all, "Here you go, sir," and wandered off again, and Dad just stared at it and then turned it in towards his chest. I think the waiter mumbled something about it being for his steak, but it was rather inaudible so it all just seemed bizarre). The food was good but way too filling. I got a piece of banana cream cheesecake to take home and I just now ate it. It was pretty divine. Mom baked a Devil's food cake for me that we're going to light with candles and eat tomorrow or Sunday--whenever we feel like looking at food again. The waiters gathered round and sang Happy Birthday for me and I blew out a candle shoved into a tiny cup of decadent fudge and cream. Smeg and Dad had to help me eat it because I had Restaurant Food Fatigue. But yay! Dinner! Singing! People representin' for me!
Ughhg I was going to give y'all some pictures, but I can't seem to get them off my phone so you'll just have to deal with text for now. My mom took pictures (oh, so many awful pictures of me looking like a bloated whale in my robe), so I'll get those off later. Or maybe never! Knowing me, probably the latter. I hate getting pictures transferred to the internets.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. *Alex James in NMTB* NOW I'M THIS USELESS TAMBOURINE-PLAYING CHEESE IDIOT! /reference no one gets. God, I love that show. I JUST SAW THE DAVID TENNANT ONE FUCK IT WAS AMAZING HE IS SO HOT AND SCOTTISH AND FUNNY. <333
J.