Wandering Aimlessly

Well, I am home. I'm excited to see my family, but I already miss my apartment. Shelley left on Saturday, and boy was it strange to go upstairs and not only not see her sitting at her computer, but have her entire room be bare. And now my room looks like that, too. Empty rooms that were so extremely lived-in and comfortable just hours earlier make me so sad! =(

Yesterday I ushered graduation. It was very cool. First off, a lot of my friends were graduating. Secondly, I was ushering in front of the LAS student section, so all the graduates that had been in my classes were walking by me. It was nice to see so many people again. I saw John, who I hadn't talked to in ages, and I saw John's freshman year roommate, Alex, which was so funny. He even recognized me, without using my name tag. He's... a good-looking fellow. <.g>

Maya Angelou was the speaker, and she just blew me away. She'd come to my high school during Writer's Week one year, and it was excellent to see her speak again. She didn't read her speech at all. She was fantastic, and it makes me sad that I won't be graduating at an all-school graduation like this one... I think they only do departmental ceremonies in December. But at least I got to experience it once. =)

So I'd planned on leaving between 1 and 2, right after graduation, but I didn't get out of the arena until after 1 (people hang around TOO long after those things!), then traffic was horrible. Driving the five-minute drive to the book store to get my dad another diploma frame took me 25 minutes! Ack! So then I went home and finished packing, spent 30 minutes trying to get my computer open to extract the network card (Sarah's brother couldn't get it open, either, so I wasn't being dumb. Lol. Brad finall got it when he got home), then I had to load the car, which took forever, CLEAN the bathroom and my bedroom and vacuum the hallway. By that time it was 4, and Aarti called to say she was on her way home, so I waited for her. She got home about 4:30, I said my goodbyes and got on the road, only to get a disappointed phone call from my mom saying my grandparents had been waiting, but since I was just leaving, she'd send them home. =( Then traffic was AWFUL and it took me three and a half hours to get home (usually doesn't take more than 2.5). So that was my day.

But now I'm home, I get to see a little bit of my family, and then I need to pack again! Lol.