Life: finishing up

[neveralarch]

I'm done with finals! All I have to do is submit my (edited and finished) thesis to the library archive, and then that's everything. No more undergraduate career. It all went pretty well, I think, but it was a ridic amount of stuff to get through. I was writing my final final paper on Thursday, took a break to help friends move their stuff, spent five and a half hours moving their stuff, went back and finished drafting that paper at 11 pm, hung out with a friend at a graveyard as a break, went back and finished the second draft at 3 am. Then I got up Friday morning, edited, gave the paper to a friend to check, finished the paper, and hung out with a bunch of my senior friends. And then made cookies. And then went to a friend's voice recital. And then the last fencing party was at my house (it was awesome, very chill), and then another friend came and kept me up talking about her feelings and her sadness about leaving the US to study at oxford, and I didn't go to bed until 4 am. Same friend kept me up last night too, I think she's part of a conspiracy to make me exhausted.

/tl;dr, point is, this is ridiculous. And the rest of the week is going to be more of the same. And the rear-view mirror in my car came unglued, so I need to fix that (and do all my other errands). But the summer is coming, and I am only working weekends so I am going to CATCH UP, I have so many fics in my to-read list, I have so many books I've been waiting to check out, there are new episodes of Community, I have SO MANY wips, oh man.

But it's sad to be graduating, and to face losing touch with all of my friends, because I'm great at making acquaintances and even really close friends, but I am shit at keeping in touch. And I know grad school is going to be way smaller and way less friendly than this, because everything is going to be smaller and less friendly than this.

Okay. To close, a series of texts from the Friday night fencing party:

Mailin, having stolen my phone and sending texts to all of my recent contacts: Hihihnihnihninh
My friend Christian: Hihihi... drinking a little?
Me, having regained my phone: Meilin commandeered my phone
C: So is that a yes or no?
Me: Yes but not that much
C: Ah I see...and what would Meilin like to say?
Me, returning the phone despite my better judgment: Here she comes
Mailin: Its mailin
M: Hi
M: Would you like a aosnnetg
M: Sonn et
C: Yes.
M: Let me not to the marriage biof true minds admit impedients love is not love love which alters when it m
M: Alteration fi nfds
-Mailin gives up in disgust at her inability to manipulate my keyboard-
Me: She tried
C: How sweet...perhaps you should drink a bit more so you can be at her level
Me: Haha, I don't think I could get there

Man, I'm going to miss these people so much. I still get fucking flashbacks to Germany, and I was there for a semester, how long am I going to get flashbacks to Boston?

This has been a maudlin post. I'm going to get started on my to-do list and stop thinking about this for a bit.

Comments

[evilawyer]

Well, despite the sad aspects, you've completed a life milestone. Congratulations on that.

[neveralarch]

Thank you! It actually is really exciting, and I'm going to be so glad to hold my diploma and be done :)