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so i graduated high school. pretty bizzare.
our original graduation ceremony was on the 18th, at six pm, but we got rained out (we were all in our caps and gowns waiting to walk and they cancelled it), and we had it the morning of the 19th instead. it took away a lot of the anticipation, but it will still be a good story to one up people with. i really, really love the class i graduated with. they always say that by senior year you'll learn to out cliques and popularity aside and just be together, and i think that my grade really acheived that. obviously, there are exceptions, but we're definetly one of the closer classes that's passed through daniel hand high school.
i didn't cry until the day after graduation. and then i just..couldn't stop. i LOVE high school, i'm one of the only people i know who adore high school completely. the past four years have been hilarious and sad and scary and just amazing, and i love my school and town and all of the kids that i've grown up with. people talk about high school being awful, but, my experience was kind of wonderful. obviously, it's easy to say this in hindsight. i know that there were times when i just wanted to fast forward and get out of madison and high school, but looking back, i realize how amazing it's all been. i can't believe i'm not in high school anymore. i thought i would be in highschool FOREVER. when i was little, i thought my four years were going to be like a 90's teen movie: all parties and football player boyfriends and soft rock soundtracks, and, obviously, that's no one's real experience. but, if i wanted to fast forward before, now all i really want to do is press repeat.
i had a really quiet graduation party-i didn't want one, mom insisted. it was just me and tim and jenna and justine and kristin and halie and pete and lindsey, and my mom called marley and invited her kind of last minute. marley and i are never going to be best friends again, but she was such a part of me for so long. she was, honestly, my sister, and we deserve SOMETHING, some way that we can go off to college and not feel like we don't know each other. it was really nice to have her over, surprisingly not awkward, and if either one of us got a little teary when we hugged, neither of us said anything. i got some money and cards and jenna gave me a little chicago snowglobe that she bought in the airport and have to fight security for when they tried to take it away. justine asked me what i wanted for graduation like, months ago, and my automatic response was "jon walker." apparently, he's kind of hard to get. instead, she gave me a really nice letter that made me cry (apparently i'm doing a lot of that,) and a framed picture of jon walker being a hotass. it's sitting on my desk right now and i feel like a HUGE creep, but it's a really nice frame (and picture. my mom came in and saw it and asked who it was and i said my boyfriend. she chose not to respond.)
started work today. six hours with kids 6-12 who DO NOT want to be at camp. the counselors went around introducing ourselves, and this bratty little eight year old boy looked at me and said, "you have big boobs!" brady yelled at him. like, a lot. it was actually pretty hilarious.