Mee bee gettin ehjoomuhkshun!
 

Don't let the thread title fool you; I'm rather scholarly (hence achieving a 4.0 GPA this year :D )

Anyway, I just got back from my graduation rehearsal about three hours ago; it was, as my former Algebra II teacher put it when she was speaking at the podium, "the last morning of high school we all attended". She was starting to get a bit teary-eyed, which I can understand coming from a teacher who's been at that school for, oh, 20 some-odd years. It was totally cold in that building (our Municipal Auditorium), though one girl in a tube-top sitting in front of me had it worse than I did with the AC blowing right on her. And I knew her too, poor girl.

So, rehearsal got out a lot sooner than I had expected (the flyer said we'd be out at 11:00, we were done by 9:30 this morning), I just hope the actual graduation ceremony goes well too. Knowing some of the hoodlums that I was sitting in the immediate vicinity of, however, I don't have high hopes. At least we're not an "at risk" school district.

The moment I walked out of the auditorium, somebody must've set off a stink bomb, because the smell was totally horrid, and I know a stink bomb when I smell one (that's what I get for GROWING UP in an "at-risk" school district). One those hoodlums I described yelled to me, "Hey Brent! Did you break wind or something?" I sure as Hell wasn't laughing.

So now here I am at home typing this (obviously), and I await 6:00 PM, as I have to be there again for the actual ceremony at 6:30, and it all starts at 7:30. Then after the tedious giving of diplomas and scholarship announcements, the throwing of caps in the air, and the pictures of the graduates afterwards, it's off to Project Graduation (a "celebrate one last time" thing) which will go from 10:00 at night to 4:00 in the in morning. Breakfast served, thankfully.

After that, summer and working.

After that...HELLO U.T. DALLAS!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, if I have pics of the ceremony and afterwards, I'll post 'em :wink:

So you're headed to Dallas? You'll probably get stabbed by some wino.

Technically it's in Richardson...which I hope is a better area than most of the city (according to my grandpa, there's a lot of poverty in Dallas despite the extravgant urban area)...

Yeah most of Dallas is a ghetto, and it's filled with bums. Richardson is nice, but it's crowded as hell.

congratulations on the Graduation! and good luck w/ the next round of classes!

Great news, TMNT fans! I ended my high school life on a high note (no pun intended); at my Project Graduation I decided to wear my black TMNT shirt. As soon as we got to the park I got responses from the employees in their mid 20s there, which wasn't a surprise to me (they were all supportive of me, and one guy even wanted to know when the new series comes on). But the height of the evening (I should say morning since it was about 2:45 AM) was when we gathered into teams for a little trivia game. The team I was on originally wanted to have the team name "Neon", because that was on one of the girl's shirts, but then our "team leader" noticed my shirt, and she said, "NO! WAIT! Let's be the Teenage Mutant Ninja Grads!"

Can you say "ecstasy"? :wink:

Wow!! Sounds like you had a blast, Rez! Congrats on your success, and good luck in Dallas! :D

man I hate stink bombs even if I have thrown a couple in my life.......