April 2, 2004

  • went to my interview.  i think it went pretty okay.  kimberly (my supervisor) wanted to see me all growed-up, so i didn't change.  louie dropped me off after we ate at mel's--they're onion rings are so good--and i hung out at the office and talked to kim and tiffany and steinberg about my interview gripes.  then i went and picked up my cap and gown (ahhhck!) and ordered some personalized announcements (i kinda screwed up the complimentary ones by writing on the cards by hand with a caligraphy pen that sucks because it's cheap because dumb me forgot that i coulda just used a typewriter or written it nicely with a nicer pen) and ordered a class ring (dayam those are expensive! thank goodness for the $60 off thingie).  they spelled "theresa" "teresa" so i tried to go fix it except the graduation center was closed so i guess i'll have to go back on Monday to get that fixed.  i get a cool gold sash and on my name card, in red, block, caps, stamped letters it says "summa cum laude"; so i guess they're going to announce it.  yay me!  yay nerddom!  i was wearing big four inch clunkers because i didn't have time to hem my pants--or maybe i was too lazy.  i thought my friend was going to go to the regalia event at the same time as my other friend and i, but she had work to do and she was feeling sick so she didn't, and she's the one that drives.  so i walked four blocks downhill in my big shoes and i paused every now and then to rest the the balls of my feet--I'm walking funny right now, the weight shifts to the outsides of my feet, as in the opposite side of the instep/arch--and then i'd skip and kinda can-can except straight ahead and not across the other leg and bounced from foot to foot while i was walking.  it probably looked funny.  a girl in a black pantsuit--on a fairly warm day--caring a little brown purse, a plastic Follet bookstore bag in the other, and wearing a pink and gray backpack, while she did a variation of the can can down parker street.  i wore my cool grayscale stocking with the palm trees and pineapples and lady in a 50s bathing suit talking to a surfer guy.  only people who i showed it to saw it.