Graduation Day
Yesterday I graduated with my Biology Bachelors from UWF. It was both exciting and boring. An hour and a half of listening to people make boring speeches, and a half hour of shufflng a couple hundred of us graduates across the stage like an assembly line. I glad when it was over. I don't like being the center of attention like that. I'm not sure what to do with myself now tho. I haven't time off from school since I started going in kindergarten. I'm used to always having tests to study for and papers to write. It wasn't fun, but if I didn't have anything to do I always some assignment I could fill in the time with. Now I've just got empty air. It's a little weird.
My parents, sister Nikki, brother-in-law Brian, Aunt Dawn, and cousin Richard came to see me walk. Afterwards we went to lunch at Olive Garden where I pretty much stuck to salad, breadsticks, and some pasta. After the night before's escapade with the Irish car bomb, my stomach couldn't handle meat. It was a fun, lively, animated lunch. My Aunt Dawn is always a lot of fun, if she is a little loud and overbearing sometimes. From there we went home and spent some time catching up with my aunt and cousin until they had to go back to their hotel and catch some sleep before heading back to Orlando.
I spent the afternoon organizing my room some, reading, and napping so I wouldn't be so sleepy for that night. I'd been talking for at least a week to all of my friends how I wanted to get everyone together and do something to celebrate my graduation... whether it be getting dinner, hitting up a club, or just sitting round someone's house chilling and drinking. I just wanted to spend the night with my friends.
I talked to Evin, David, Dave, Tony, Kristene, Kristy, Jodi, Jaclyn, and Chris. I even posted about it on RP. Everybody was like "Wow!", "Congratulations!", "That's really awesome!", "Yeah! We'd love to come hang out! Let me call you back in a little bit." Except no one actually did. Since friday night was so exciting (lol), I'd decided just hanging out, drinking and watching movies at Evin's was the best thing. Evin, David, and Evin's roommate Zach were watching "Kill Bill 1" when I got there. And I waited and waited and waited to here from people.
Dave called was like "If you guys aren't doing anything I'm just gonna go to bed." Well that's fine. You just go do that. After the movie was over, since it was kind of obvious no one else was coming, David declared he was hungry, so us 4 Emily piled into a couple cars and went to Denny's. Two guys who's names I can't remember joined us there. While there Tony called me. He was actually at Evin's apartment. He hadn't called before he'd gone over because he thought it'd be nice to surprise me. Just my fucking luck that when he did this sweet, thoughtful thing, I WASN'T THERE! Story of my life.....
I can't help but find a certain amount of humorless, hurtful irony in last night. The people that I don't talk to or see often were the ones spending time with me. And the friends I speak to regularly and hang out with couldn't even be bothered to call and say "We're really sorry Kim, but we're really tired so we're just gonna head home. Maybe we can do something next weekend?" No. They just didn't call and left me dangling and waiting. Even the one person out of everybody that I was POSITIVE would make time for me, didn't come celebrate with me. And out of everyone, the only person who tried to come to see me was my EX-BOYFRIEND! Someone who I know has worked all day monday - saturday, worked overtime, and then went home most days and stayed up late trying to do things he needed to get done. Someone who I know has been SO busy and has been running himself ragged. Someone who i'm thinking is going to turn into a better friend than I thought. HE tried to come see me.
On any other, everyday weekend I wouldn't have been too bothered. But last night it did. So I have to give a lot of kudos and a HUGE thank you to Evin and David for hanging out with me last night. Despite my disappointment that no one else felt like taking a couple hours out of their time to come, I did have fun watching the movie and chit-chatting with you guys. And I have to give more kudos and another HUGE thank you to Tony for at least trying to come spend some time with me. Thank you guys.
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My parents, sister Nikki, brother-in-law Brian, Aunt Dawn, and cousin Richard came to see me walk. Afterwards we went to lunch at Olive Garden where I pretty much stuck to salad, breadsticks, and some pasta. After the night before's escapade with the Irish car bomb, my stomach couldn't handle meat. It was a fun, lively, animated lunch. My Aunt Dawn is always a lot of fun, if she is a little loud and overbearing sometimes. From there we went home and spent some time catching up with my aunt and cousin until they had to go back to their hotel and catch some sleep before heading back to Orlando.
I spent the afternoon organizing my room some, reading, and napping so I wouldn't be so sleepy for that night. I'd been talking for at least a week to all of my friends how I wanted to get everyone together and do something to celebrate my graduation... whether it be getting dinner, hitting up a club, or just sitting round someone's house chilling and drinking. I just wanted to spend the night with my friends.
I talked to Evin, David, Dave, Tony, Kristene, Kristy, Jodi, Jaclyn, and Chris. I even posted about it on RP. Everybody was like "Wow!", "Congratulations!", "That's really awesome!", "Yeah! We'd love to come hang out! Let me call you back in a little bit." Except no one actually did. Since friday night was so exciting (lol), I'd decided just hanging out, drinking and watching movies at Evin's was the best thing. Evin, David, and Evin's roommate Zach were watching "Kill Bill 1" when I got there. And I waited and waited and waited to here from people.
Dave called was like "If you guys aren't doing anything I'm just gonna go to bed." Well that's fine. You just go do that. After the movie was over, since it was kind of obvious no one else was coming, David declared he was hungry, so us 4 Emily piled into a couple cars and went to Denny's. Two guys who's names I can't remember joined us there. While there Tony called me. He was actually at Evin's apartment. He hadn't called before he'd gone over because he thought it'd be nice to surprise me. Just my fucking luck that when he did this sweet, thoughtful thing, I WASN'T THERE! Story of my life.....
I can't help but find a certain amount of humorless, hurtful irony in last night. The people that I don't talk to or see often were the ones spending time with me. And the friends I speak to regularly and hang out with couldn't even be bothered to call and say "We're really sorry Kim, but we're really tired so we're just gonna head home. Maybe we can do something next weekend?" No. They just didn't call and left me dangling and waiting. Even the one person out of everybody that I was POSITIVE would make time for me, didn't come celebrate with me. And out of everyone, the only person who tried to come to see me was my EX-BOYFRIEND! Someone who I know has worked all day monday - saturday, worked overtime, and then went home most days and stayed up late trying to do things he needed to get done. Someone who I know has been SO busy and has been running himself ragged. Someone who i'm thinking is going to turn into a better friend than I thought. HE tried to come see me.
On any other, everyday weekend I wouldn't have been too bothered. But last night it did. So I have to give a lot of kudos and a HUGE thank you to Evin and David for hanging out with me last night. Despite my disappointment that no one else felt like taking a couple hours out of their time to come, I did have fun watching the movie and chit-chatting with you guys. And I have to give more kudos and another HUGE thank you to Tony for at least trying to come spend some time with me. Thank you guys.
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