Hi Everybody!

Well there have been many changes in my world since I last posted. First of all, I've moved. I'm about to be unemployed and I'm starting beginning Japanese in September!

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Hokay!
After wasting my collage loan money on a car that doesn't reverse and being dicked around by the car lot, I leased a black '09 Nissan Verssa whom stark_black named Ishida. He's a very prim and proper little car that looks really cool; just like a certain Bleach character we all know and love. I also had my first driving lesson with Stark today and I didn't crash! At this point in my driving education I can brake smoothly (sometimes) and turn without breaking in the middle. Everything else needs work. Oh well, tomorrow is another day!

I bought a car! Yup, I now can join the ranks of those who don't have to take the bus anymore. My new baby is a white '99 Volkswagen Jetta GLS. I've always wanted a VW since I was 12 or something, so in a way this is my dream car. There are two downsides to my new used car; the radio doesn't work and there may be a leak somewhere in the trunk since the carpet in there smells like mildew. But I don't think these problems won't cost a fortune to fix. Then I'll get to decorate it!

Unfortunately, I got the car Wednesday night and then went to work. I slept in on Thursday and woke up when it was dark so no driving practice. Slept in and then went to work so no driving practice on Friday. I came home late Saturday feeling sick so I went to bed and slept the rest of the day. Today (Sunday) I actually feel worse so no driving either. I'll actually drive it one day... Hopefully, I'll feel better and drive it tomorrow.

I finished my first book of the summer. Dean Koontz's "Phantoms". It only took me three weeks to finish. This is not good, I normally can finish two books by then. This could be caused by my adjusting to living with a two year old, and the increase in noise level that comes with it. I also have yet to make friends with the local library since moving. I'm sure that will help my reading speed increase too. But in my defense, I have been reading a butt load of manga and fanfics so I haven't completely stopped reading altogether...

And my computer is slowly dieing on me. Six moths ago, my space bar stopped working properly; then two days ago my dvd player just won't work and then yesterday my "A"button got stuck and then just a few minutes ago the key itself popped off.

So I guess I'm going computer shopping on Monday. This Laptop I'm writing on has lasted just about 5 years. It's had a good run. Sigh.

I figured out the best way to spend the evening before graduation... watching Samurai 7 with stark_black while painting my fingernails and toenails!

I also figured out the best way to spend the night of your graduation... eating a huge plate of nachos and drinking huge margaritas while talking over fic ideas and graduation stories with stark!

Graduation was great! My friends screamed so loud for me when my name was called, it was great. I'm pretty sure the whole hall heard. Whenever I looked back I could see my friends waving at me and grinning. I felt so loved!

Afterwards, when we all found each other, everyone kept saying how pretty I looked (thanks to stark) and how proud they were of me. Then, one of my family friends held up a calendar she had made for me with a picture my parents had taken together after I was born. She said she wanted to make sure they saw me graduate. That did it, I started crying. I was doing so good until I saw the picture. Pretty soon, everyone was crying. After we pulled ourselves together, Stark and I went off to capitol hill to have a drink and get some food. It was a great night!

Next Saturday is going to be great too, that's when my graduation party happens and I'll get to see all of my friends that couldn't come to the ceremony. Plus, I get to eat cake! Yays!

Hokay!

Just finished my last final this morning and now I'll never have to do them ever again! Happy does not even begin to describe how I am feeling right now.

I graduate on Sunday and now I'm all nervous, what if I fall on stage? I know it probably happen but I still worry about it.

Tomorrow, I'm running all over getting my last minute stuff together. I have to get special underthings for my dress and comfy but pretty shoes and figure out if I have jewelry that matches the dress or not. It's gonna be hectic but a fun hectic.

Graduation party next Saturday, I get to hang out, eating BBQ and getting hugged all day (that's a good thing, by the way).

Bottom line, all the hard schooly stuff is over. YAAAY!

I tend to be a fairly low energy person. I don't like to cram my day full of things to do and would generally go with the flow. If I feel like going window shopping, I go; and that's about it for the excitement. Or I just do chores. I tend to have only one or two major things packed into my day with the rest spent reading or writing or people watching. So this coming weekend/next week is going to be nuts.

I'm moving Saturday and Sunday. And I'm not packed yet. I spent most of my week studying and writing term papers and taking tests and writing essays. I also promised The Clan that I'd drop by for a Memorial Day BBQ, completely forgetting that I'm moving... Sigh.

I'm also working tonight which means I have to try and go to sleep the second I get home so I get something close to rest before moving heavy shit across town.

Monday the internet and cable will be back on, just in time for me to type up and turn in an assignment due the next morning. I'm picking up Stark Black's Tuesday shifts for three weeks so I'm working the next night. Then I have another term paper due that Friday (I just finished my first term paper Wednesday) and I'm pretty sure I have an essay assignment and another exam in there somewhere.

I'm also going to be unpacking between desperately finishing assignments...

Did I also mention that I'm graduating in three weeks?

Oy! I'm off to go do breathing exercises so I can relax enough to sleep now...

Hey all,
School is nearing an end for me. I'm graduating at the end of next quarter and couldn't be happier!
The homework gods saw fit to give me a break from struggling to finish everything on time before my final film studies paper is due and finals week kicks in. I was messing around online and found something that tickled my funny bone and thought I'd share, especially since I'm a chemical dependency class... Enjoy!




*falls off the couch laughing again*

While everyone was having lovey stuff shoved down their throats, I was wishing I had a better immune system. I caught my yearly knock-you-on-your-ass cold. I managed to drag myself to the store and bought some strawberries and some chocolate cake to celebrate my first single Valentines Day in three years and I was so congested I couldn't taste the cake or the berries! It sucked. I don't have a fever anymore and I can finally breathe out of one nostril, so it's not all bad. All I need to do now is hurry up and hack up all this gack in my lungs and unplug my nose, I'll be able to sleep for more than three hours at a time! Once I get a full nights sleep, I'll know I'm better. Hey, it could be worse. I could have been depressed the whole time, considering I haven't been on a date in a year. On the positive side, I watched a whole bunch of 30 Rock and One Piece! I hope my F-list had a good V-D! Gotta go, I need more tea.

There was a 4.6 earthquake near Seattle today. I think the news said it was centered around Kingston. I felt it, it wasn't very dramatic. My apartment building shook, well more of a weird rolling/rocking motion. No damage on my end and none reported on the news. It was pretty cool. Kitty slept trough the whole thing, I guess she isn't one of those animals that can detect earthquakes. Damn.