graduation weekend was among the most stressful times ever at bc. it was a mess of emotions, from bitterness to happiness to total sadness. since i'm still in boston and i'm still still here for grad school, its not really any sort of goodbye, but at the same time, my bc bubble is totally burst. no longer can i just go next door and hang out with lou. i can't sit in the common room and have alex and jeff there ready to booze and walk the runway. chris doesn't live just in the next building over. this is going to take some getting used to.
my parents came in friday, but seeing as i had so much going on, and my commencement ball on saturday, i didn't even see them until sunday morning at the baccalaureate mass. that ended up being total shit in that because of a mistake in song order made my my director, my solo verse during the senior blessing was cut. normally, that might not be so bad, but when it is the last time you get to sing with a group that has really defined your time at bc, it makes you extremely upset and angry. whatever.
i managed to cool down and have a nice dinner in the north end with the family. that night i hung out with christopher and co., but seeing as we had to be up at 5 for the sunrise, we didn't stay out too late. the sunrise was a mess. i was already fighting back tears on the way, so when i got there to see my friends already sobbing, i just let go. that continued on and off for the next half hour or so. i had a nice breakfast with jack, joe, chris, and lou, and then at 8:30 it was already time to meet on linden lane for the commencement march.
the ceremony was long as shit, but David McCullogh, the author of 'John Adams' and '1776' gave a very engaging speech. by the time the individual diploma ceremony was over, it was around 230. i was crabby as shit all afternoon, but we moved some of my shit to the apartment and packed up pretty much the rest of my room. dinner at the capital grill was delicious, and it really was nice to have 10 members of my family there all just to see me graduate. i made out pretty well in graduation $$$, and once dinner was done with, i headed back to gabelli for my final night in the dorms.
got up at 8 to start moving everything yesterday morning, and it was QUITE the exhaustive morning/afternoon. by evening time, however, and after lunch with lauren and her mom who had helped us, we were all settled in. bryan came over and brought us champagne, and later on robbie came by for leftovers from capital grille and bertucci's. all in all it was a great, though tiring day.
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and this is why i don't even bother making friends in colllege...
ha just kidding. well. sort of.
try not to think of it as 'goodbye' - because, although they left for the summer and possibly for grad school, you'll see them again :)
good luck with that damn latin class!
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