What's going on with me?

5-9-05 - Lots of junk has happened in the past few days. On Thursday night, I went to a party that had a lot of gay people there. That's no big deal. It was actually the first time I'd danced with a gay guy. Oh, don't worry. We were just playing DDR :-P

Right before graduation practice started, I learned that my friend Mo's dad won $400k in the lottery. This past Saturday for the graduation ceremony, he wrote "FOR U DAD" on the top of his cap. I got a good picture of it. Come to think of it, I got lots of good pictures during the ceremony.

On Friday, about an hour after I saw some random guy throwing up behind a restaurant, David spotted a plaid car. Too bad I didn't have my camera on me :-(
What is the deal with 107.5 the River playing "Outside" by Fred Durst and Aaron Lewis like crazy all of a sudden? Didn't that song come out like 6 years ago? Did they just discover it? I'm coRnfused.

So today I ate some spaghetti at my friend Sarah's house. Maybe about 10 or 20 minutes later, I was sneezing and so I went to blow my nose. After I blew my nose, I glanced down at the tissue and saw a tiny little piece of a spaghetti noodle in the tissue. I was confused and amused simultaneously.

Many thanks to Carrie and Sarah for coming to my graduation and then giving me an awesome Rex Kwon Do shirt!

Sarah has some of the coolest candles ever, if I do say so myself!

5-5-05 - Today's 5-5-05, neato. I'm about an hour away from going to graduation rehearsal. I get free pizza afterwards...I should also get the Engineering Award for having a 4.0 in the past 60 hours I've taken.

It looks like I'm gonna graduate magna cum laude. For those that don't know, it means "with high honors" and is wedged in between cum laude and summa cum laude. I'm slightly upset cuz I've got 3 of my 7 grades posted already and I have an A and 2 B's, but I'll live. At least one B was in a one-hour class. I just upset cuz I figured I could finish college with only having one semester that wasn't a 4.0, but who cares? I'm still gonna have like a 3.87 GPA. That's nothing at all to be ashamed of, especially in chemical engineering.

A couple days ago, I got an instant message from a screen name I didn't recognize, something that's always fun. I hate it when it turns out to be some porn ad, but this conversation started out with a personal greeting. I do as I normally do, just saying hello and not acting like I'm wondering who it is. I checked the profile, as always, and found a link to a xanga site. It turned out to be someone named Rachael, and I only know one person that spells that name with a diphthong, so I knew exactly who it was and I was very excited about it! We talked for a good hour and a half on here and we've talked a good bit the past couple days. She's a good gal, I like her. Apparently I can read her mind, and I found a thought in there about her undying love for me.

A couple weeks ago while driving towards Columbia from here (I'd just left Cookeville), I was thinking about friendships. I had just made a couple new friends that week and I was thinking about how much it sucks that I just made those friends right before I'm about to graduate. Then I thought about a couple friendships which had fairly recently hit the rocks (one has since been rectified). I came to this conclusion:

"I'd much rather wonder what might have been if I'd just had more time to spend around some people than see it through and know that it does end."

I don't think I said anything about that thought to anyone before early this morning when Rachael and I were talking. After I typed it and then reread it, I realized that it's pseudo-philosophical. She said it was very zen-like. Awesome. I've reached enlightenment.

It's been almost a year since the Renaissance Faire last year, and it looks like I'm gonna go again. Assuming they go again the weekend after I'm in Denver, I'll be going with Liz and Rachael. I need to call Liz and ask. Cole and Brandan are going to it some time as well, but I think I'm gonna miss them. D'oh :-( Kate and I had lots of fun last year when we went. I imagine it'll be the same situation this year, assuming I go.

Well, no quotes in my profile for the few weeks that I'll be home before going to Knoxville. Don't worry, I'll still be collecting them, so keep chatting with me and saying funny things!

5-3-05 - Haha, I think I say it every month, but I love the beginning of a new month just because of the fact that I can come up with a new borderline-gay, super-clashing color scheme. Awesome!

Wow. I've had a happy couple of days. Seeing Stacey was exciting a few days ago and though I didn't see her the next day like we thought we might, I did talk to her on the phone last night and we'll be in Columbia at the same time and hopefully we'll see each other. I spent a lot of time with Liz over the past couple days. We had a lot of fun and it makes me very upset about the past couple months, but what can you do? At least everything is right with that situation. No one has any idea how happy I've been! Last night was the first time I had to say "Uncle" during a back or calf massage. I don't know if my muscles were that sore or what, but it about killed me.

I should've been really happy this afternoon, but I knew I wouldn't be. It was kinda awkward. Had there been no other people around, I think it would've been a lot better. I had mixed feelings beforehand and I have mixed feelings now. I was proven right on a technicality; and as much as I hate saying it, I almost kinda wish I wasn't :-(

I don't know what to think about the final I had on Monday. I felt ok about most of it and then I went outside and there were some people out there that had already finished and they were talking about it. Talking to them made me not feel so good about everything. Hopefully I'll get enough partial credit on it to net me an A.

It's less than a month until I move to Knoxville. I've been meaning to call the apartment place since yesterday, but I forgot. Maybe I'll remember and do it tomorrow.

It's only a three days and 10 1/2 hours until graduation. I've got at least one thing to do everyday until then, so it'll probably go by rather quickly. Melissa's coming to see me on Friday and she said she wants to do something fun. If the weather's nice, I might go sucker her into doing the paddle boats at the park. I just learned that the park existed less than a week ago. How long have I been here? Lordy! Anyway, I can't wait to see Melly. She's a great gal!

Aforementioned mixed feelings abound.