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Graduation

May 23, 2007 20:29

On Friday, I attended my youngest brother's high school graduation.

This wasn't so bad in and of itself. I didn't mind that they kept almost all the lights off until the hat-throwing bit. Or the trite little class valedictorian and salutatorian speeches that sounded almost exactly like every speech given in an eighties college movie. It was ( Read more... )

personal, wtf

Comments 8

bunnynumber13 May 24 2007, 01:35:43 UTC

"Oh sure, that enticing lure of $8.50 an hour is hard to pass up, but I think I've made an impression that he probably doesn't want to do that for the rest of his life."

Hey, he's making more than me, so I won't begrudge him. He's doing exactly what I'm STILL doing now and I'm five years older than him. How sad am I?

I won't be attending my brother's graduation. My vacation starts the same week and like hell is my job going to give me that day off too! He doesn't care that I'm not going so it's okay.

doc_destructo May 24 2007, 02:11:38 UTC

Well, $8.50 is kinda the maxed out rate. I think he starts at $7.75 or $8 flat. Brother #1 (the eldest after me) has been working there for about two or three years now... for that $8.50. It's not bad money, but not really something he can live off of.

Meh, brothers #1 and #2 didn't attend my high school graduation either. Albeit largely because it was a large graduating class and due to limited seating they couldn't bring their girlfriends.

bunnynumber13 May 24 2007, 02:26:18 UTC

"It's not bad money, but not really something he can live off of."

Thus why I still live with the 'rents.

robiewankenobie May 24 2007, 04:23:45 UTC

i think maybe we carry along those most important to us, don't you think? maybe it's not such a bad thing.

doc_destructo May 24 2007, 04:38:26 UTC

I prefer to believe that fate is immutable and destiny cannot be changed! They were destined to be cut like so much chaff from the harvest!

robiewankenobie May 24 2007, 10:46:05 UTC

yeah. there's that. *snort* i just think that high school wasn't the highlight of my life...

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doc_destructo May 24 2007, 23:56:45 UTC

Yeah, but will they be talking about pubic hair in front of the five year-olds? That's when the class-o-meter really starts to sizzle!

na_no_nai May 26 2007, 21:31:22 UTC

I didn't go to my reunion last summer, and I ran into a friend recently who said it was pretty much just like high school. The same people who thought they were cool back then still think so now. I'm just glad I didn't waste money on the tickets! XD

Sympathies for having to deal with family, man.