As I Go On

So, I am currently in Rochester visiting my Aunty Anne after a very eventful couple of days. Friday was my graduation, and though I was expecting to not be sad at all, I find myself emotionally distraught. Something about this whole thing seems so final. I feel as though I'm leaving my youth behind. I'm sure we all could agree that high school was often a real pain in the osh kosh bagosh, but, despite that, I had some of the best times in my life in that building, and I know in the future I will only look back at that school with fondness. I haven't even been a Middletown alumni for more than a couple of days, and I am already yearning for the past.

Friday night was the all night grad party. I don't know if you could exactly say the party was hoppin', but it was kind of fun and it was nice spending time with people that you more than likely will never see again (how depressing).

The actual graduation was decent. Of course I would have loved to graduate on the new field, but at least our graduation was memorable. Mother nature was very upset with us for some reason.

Thursday was the scholarship award thing. The food was very excellent, but they could have made the whole process of giving out the awards a bit quicker. Oh, and we had to evacuate the premises due to a gas leak? Good thing it's something we're more than familiar with.

Anyway, my dad got some nice pictures at the graduation:

(I love my mommy)

So , I guess I'm leaving something behind as I go out into the real world (or the protective bubble of my college.) But I think I'm gaining much more. Independence, freedom, etc. I'm anxious to learn everything I can and to continue to develop and grow. I look forward to making new friends and cherishing the old ones, but more importantly, I look forward to seeing what life has in store for me.

Babysitting

So, the one thing that may be worse than my job at Panera is babysitting my little cousins, Lauren and Christopher. Lauren is very well-behaved, but Chris is not. I would like to share a story with you of his abuse:

A couple years ago at my family's Easter get-together, I was sitting in my aunt's living room minding my own business when Chris decided to come in and bother me. However, this particular instance proved to be more unpleasant than the usual harassment I've grown accustomed to. He had this big long toy snake filled with these bean things (like the stuff they fill the beanie babies with?), and I guess he thought it would be fun to hit me in the face with it. After a few hits one of his friends was like "hey! let me have a whack!" and then THAT little devil started hitting me in the face, too! Anyway, I was very confused as to what I ever did to deserve such treatment, and I hastily retreated to one of the upstairs bedrooms to escape the whacking. But, the malevolent little tykes all ran up after me and started chucking hot wheels cars at me. I finally got away from them when I ran into the bathroom and locked myself in. I had to stay there for the majority of the remainder of the evening. I would have loved to retaliate, but it seems like every time I do I get yelled at by my aunt because he's younger than I am. He may be younger, but he still knows how to do horrible things to me with a bean filled snake. She thinks he's a precious gift from above, but I know that he is evil.

Anyway, I only bring this up because I am babysitting at this very moment. Fortunately, Chris is watching a show right now, so I have a moment of peace. If I survive the rest of the day, I'm going to go to Angie's going away party tonight. I hope she'll come back from Korea to visit.

Summery Goodness

I'm planning on finally starting to get back into writing more now that the long anticipated lazy months of summer have arrived.

So... how did I spend my first day of summer break? Doing nothing, of course! There's no better way to celebrate the end of a year marked by painstaking hard work then by spending half of the day sleeping and the other half of the day relaxing (yes, there is a big difference). Anyway, I'm looking forward to doing a lot of things outdoors this summer. It would be nice if this weather would improve a little bit. This perpetual cloudiness just isn't cutting it.

I haven't been blogging much about any significant events of my life, and I certainly don't feel like doing a major recap on the things that have taken place in the last few weeks. So, I suppose I'll just keep the memories to myself.

Graudation is coming up very soon. I'm very excited (and sad) for school to be officially over.

Expect to hear (or read) a lot from me this summer. I'm going to get very bored very quickly.

P-P-P-Poker Face

(they should change the title of the song to puppy face)

So, my sister came up to visit last weekend. She taught me how to play poker which was kind of fun even though I suck at it and I'm sure if I ever played for money I would be left without a penny to my name. Anyway, it reminded me of one of my favorite pictures of my puppy! Enjoy.

(5 more days left!!!!!)

A Night to Remember

Hello there!

I have an English term paper due tomorrow so I think I'll blog as an excuse to put off writing it.

Last Friday was prom and I can honestly say I enjoyed myself. In the days leading up to the event I had a sort of "lets just get it over with" attitude, but I actually ended up having a good time. The only thing that bothered me the whole night was that Nora and I kept being harassed by everyone we knew to dance more. I figured our friends would be proud that we even got on the dance floor, but, apparently not.

Anyway, going to prom reminded me that my days left at Middletown High School are very limited. I wish I could just enjoy the rest of my senior year, but since my teachers choose to keep giving me pointless work, that's not going to happen.

Grin and Bear it

I had a somewhat interesting week.

After APs were over, it was time for the NHS induction/graduation thing. It was a lot quicker than last year and I actually almost enjoyed it. One of my invited inspiring teachers gave me a 25$ gift card to borders which I thought to be a lovely gesture. I also got to see Mrs. Mac again! She was my 6th grade English teacher and she was probably one of the only nice people I encountered throughout those horrifying years of middle school. I was worried that she wouldn't remember me, but her enthusiasm suggested otherwise.

The dessert that they served afterwards was very excellent (especially the cream puffs). While I was rushing over to snatch me some eats, Claudia tried to hi-five me but hit me right in the nose. Being the fragile child that I am, my nose immediately started gushing out blood. Luckily, Alexis was there to help, and she seemed to know exactly how to handle the situation.

Yesterday, while I was working at Panera, I encountered the meanest customer I've had in the 5 months I've had this terrible job. She was rude, she kept complaining and yelling, and she even went as far as to insult me. I'm sorry, but if I'm being nice to you, you better be nice to me. Of course, I just had to smile at her, hand her the bagel, and tell her to have a nice day. I wish I had just a little bit more nerve. If I did, I would have jumped over that counter and shown her who's boss. Unfortunately, college is very expensive, and I need this job over the summer so I can save up my money.

Double Trouble

So I took the AP Biology and Physics Exams today. 8 hours of standardized testing. It was a very mentally exhausting day.

I felt kind of uncomfortable being in a little office all by myself taking the bio test with Ms. Degra watching me in a hawk-like manner. She kept saying things that made me feel slow like "fill in the name of the school. You go to Middletown High School. Make sure you write Middletown High School." I think anyone taking an advanced placement test knows the name of the school they go to and how to color in ovals. It also didn't help that she started eating at one point during the exam, either. There was only a desk separating her and myself, so I could hear her chewing which was just about enough to make me want to take my own life.

Anyway, now that those 2 AP tests are over, Physics and Bio should pretty much be free periods. I'm glad that my life is finally beginning to become less stressful as we approach the months of summer.