come together

well i’ve been graduated for almost two weeks now. well a week really. it seems like its all gone so fast. but honestly, it has. Lets discuss graduation: mom threw me a party on saturday and to tell the truth i was dreading it until it happened. i felt like it was all going to be about my mom cleaning the house and her prepping the food and her doing all of this work and inviting all of her friends, and i didn’t really think many of mine would show up. mostly because we never did formal little invitations. you know how that goes. as it turned out though, my really good friends were able to make it. i got to see amy, andrea, josh, lacey, madeline, alissa, ashley and some of my mom’s friends who i haven’t seen in years. ms. chamberlain was able to make it too and i had an amazing time. it was a great way to end high school.

sunday, i did the actual graduation thing. i gave my speech which included a few bad jokes regarding inside-school humor. ie, a judge in kansas ruled that all state public schools be shut down until the damn legislature fixed the budget. and no child left behind. i’ve gotten a lot of good feedback on my speech because a) it did not include a prayer and b) it was very jess-esque. it was a wonderful time and i was really happy about all of it. i only got a little teary during the ceremony and i’m just glad i had the chance to see all of my friends and graduate and stuff.

i spent most of last week just bumming and doing nothing. mostly because i didn’t have to do anything but work at the newspaper and i really support that. especially this week. i started at the elections office yesterday and so far we pretty much do nothing but alphabetize cancelled voters. and i’m not incredibly excited about who i work with either. like the main guy that i work by is really nice its just that there is no one near my age group. so sometimes i kinda feel like i’m just a dumb kid. but i know i’m not a dumb kid cos i mean its a good job and i got it so there must be something nice about me. lol.

i’ve been mopey and depressed the past few weeks. i think its a combo of being stressed about nationals, being a grown-up, and overworking myself. i just feel really lame. hopefully it’ll get better. i felt okay today until i noticed that the capital journal did a fucking story on the damn t-high and silver lake forensicators when i took 4th & 1st in state IX and debate. and for that matter, they should’ve mentioned megan too because she’s my hero times ten. fuckers.

that’s all for now. i’ll be in boston from thursday till monday but i might try to blog before i get out. we’ll see. love the new layout.

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