Found this on youtube. All I can say is "wow". In my opinion this was really well done...the best I've seen. Much better than my "imagine trying to sleep while there's a party in your house" analogy.
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I'm shouting out a huge CONGRATULATIONS and "YOU ROCK WOMAN!" to S-Girl...who will be graduating in about 48 minutes! Can you believe a 7 am graduation!?! Wow.
I will be graduating tomorrow morning (not as early as S-girl!).
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The parents arrived on Wednesday afternoon. We had dinner at a Thai place that D and I love last night. Today, they are picking me up at 9 am "to go shopping"...apparently for my graduation gift, and they won't say where we are going or what I am going to be looking for. I feel somewhat uneasy about going shopping with them alone, but D can't go because L (my neighbor) ordered something that is going to be delivered sometime today and has to go in the fridge right away...so someone has to be home. Also, my Aunt B is arriving today, she called last night from a town about 2 hours away and said she would be heading here in the morning. She most likely will be here before I get back...so someone needs to be home for her too.
Raine arrives late this afternoon, early evening. So tonight I will have a house full! Not that we don't have one normally...but there will be actual extra bodies! Actually...it will be a house full until Tuesday morning when Raine heads back home...B may be here until Wednesday, but at least until Tuesday.
Things are going pretty well I guess. I don't feel very happy, but maybe that will come after everything is over.
S
Today is the start of finals week. I actually already had a final last Friday...for English class...it was really cool to do it then instead of the day before graduation! Today I am taking the Speech final. It's actually scheduled for Wednesday at 10, but I have the Statistics final that day from 7-9:45, so my speech teacher offered to let me sit the final with her other speech class. I snapped up that offer! This is probably the easiest final of the four and I am really looking forward to having it behind me so I can concentrate on Statistics and Chemistry. Going into Chemistry I am doing ok...I have a solid B in the class, it's possible to get an A if I do really well on the final, but I am not doing well in Statistics so I really need to concentrate on that. Any positive stats juju would be appreciated!
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In other news...
We are waiting for the determination of D's temp. state disability. The claim was received 5/9 and they say "please allow up to 14 days for processing". So any day now? Hopefully it will be very soon because we really need some more income...SSDI does not support one person, let alone two and 3 cats! REALLY, it doesn't. There is also the issue that I am going to have company very soon. Raine and my Aunt will both be staying here for a few days (for my graduation)...I'd really like to be able to get some new towels because the ones I have, while once very nice, are now kind of old and falling apart! There are a few other things I'd like to do around the house, but they aren't as important as that. Although I do think having appropriate food for my guests is kind of important...even if it's just a little food. My Aunt is a vegetarian and I'm not sure about Raine's needs now that her food needs have changed. Anyways...good money juju would be appreciated too!
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Graduation is in 5 days...I'm excited, and sad, and overwhelmed, and giddy, and scared, and, and, and... you get the idea. Last Thursday I went to get my cap and gown and found out I am graduating with honors! I didn't know I was...I thought my C in Anatomy dropped my GPA below the mark needed. Apparently it didn't. So I will be wearing a bright gold, satin stole on graduation day! Such a huge difference from when I was dropping out every semester.
S
