Graduation is FRIDAY!

Hello friends,

I just found out blogger.com is stingy with their email list and only allows ten email addresses. That means if you are getting this is in your in-box you are super special. And that blogger.com is lame.

As for this post, it is mostly nervousness/excitement/cyber flailing. Read on.

Moving on! I just got my seating assignment for Friday. Graduation. And the tickets have been delivered if there is inclement weather and guests actually need tickets. We get five. So far I have three coming. I'm also guessing it would be very not cool to scalp graduation tickets... even with the current economy (which should totally justify it)... so if anyone will desperately need them let me know and I will *give* them to you.

Or if someone wants to come and hasn't told me now would be the time.

Hopefully it doesn't rain though and my hordes of fans can come surprise me at graduation.

Right after they materialize out of nonexistence.

So, my biggest concern about graduation is that I don't know what to wear UNDER the gown. I mean I wouldn't really be taking it off until they pry it off my body ("Just one more photo op- pleaaaaase, just ONNNNE" I shall beg and cry in a glorious and well done dramatic fashion that will even have the theater majors in awe) but, as I know defeat is inevitable, when the moment cvomes I suppose I should have something nice on, eh?

This is a dilemma. I have plenty of COOL clothes. And tights like you've never seen- striped, heart patterned, insane colors, print... but somehow part of me wants to go out classy. And adult. And not like the walking billboard for Hot Topic that I am.

Unfortunately unlike probably 95% of the graduating class I am already a working girl and don't have time or money to shop. Well, everyone else has the time, probably not so much the money. Anyway.

I should be more excited. I'm just nervous. Take the diploma with your right hand shake with the left? Or was it the other way around? What if I walk too fast? Trip? Go the wrong way back to my seat because I forget what the 350 people before me do?

Because that WILL happen. I will be sitting there in a frozen panic for and hour and a half and probably not even HEAR my name.

The four years of college was easy. It's the two hour graduation that will make a complete wreck of me. This is why my life is endlessly amusing.

And to make matters worse, I have run out of quarters. Yes, this is just as important as me not knowing how to get through a timeless graduation ceremony that hundreds of thousands have managed.

Because the "Flavia" coffee machine at work takes two quarters for one cup of bad tasting (in about 10 flavors of bad tasting "insert flavors here" might I add!) but gloriously caffeinated coffee. And without my afternoon coffee I am sure I will not even be fit for civilized society come Friday.

But in other news, I have decided to show off what compromises my amazon Wishlist because it seems I am more interested in playing dress up than what an apartment needs.

Actually, the truth is, I don't KNOW what an apartment needs. So next year I will be screaming and flailing about helplesslessly when I realize I don't have pot holders, or a colander, or a welcome mat. Or something so important I can't even conceive of it in my inexperienced state.

So, instead I browse these things:

http://amzn.com/w/38USTGGCLW5G4

(edit: Ha oops that's under my dad's name since I signed the amazon account up under him and then started using it myself later on- amusing. Also those bathing suits look skimpier than I remember! I guess I get excited when on the Hot Topic website. I am actually a tankini with a skirted bottom kind of girl.)

Clearly I need guidance. I am intelligent and able to survive but really there will be SOMETHING I wouldn't have thought of in a million years. Tell me random things you cannot live without in what I am STILL differentiating as "the real world" while pretending I am not part of the larger "real" world of those who have moved into the working/bill paying world.

I think now I am going to go. I have a ceremony on Thursday where I am getting two poetry awards and after four years my mentor and father shall meet. I have absolutely no doubt this will occasion a post so full of happiness and awesome retelling that you should be in high anticipation on the edge of your seats pressing the refresh button. Then comes graduation. Then things will calm a bit until the epic trip to Pittsburgh, in which I do my first EVER apartment search and behold what will be my new home.

Should be fun. Bye for now friends!