Graduation

I want to thank all those involved, in one way or another, in the most important day of my life.

Jeff - You have been the best brother I could ever ask for. You are amazing, even when you piss me off. I am so unbelievably proud of the person you have become, and one day I will be going to your graduation. Thank you for being there on my day, thank you for all the support and your beautiful words (shocking, lol). Love you.

I could never thank my parents and my grandparents enough. My parents especially, did absolutely everything to make this day the best day in my life. The pride I saw in there eyes was more than enough to make me happy.

I will cherish every moment of yesterday for the rest of my life. Thank you to all those not mentioned here, if you were involved in some way, I thank you and wish to some day repay your kindness...

Another NJ quote, love it!

I'm from New Jersey. I curse a lot. I never had school on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur. I sure as hell dont pump my own gas. I know what real pizza tastes like, and I know that a bagel is more than a roll with a hole in the middle. All good nights usually end at a diner, preferably w/ fries. It's a sub, not a hoagie or worse, a hero, and I wash it down with soda, not pop. Two words: mother fucker. And I don't go to the beach-I go down the shore. I judge people by what exit they are off the parkway. I know 65 mph really means 80. When someone cuts me off, they get the horn and the finger.. and they expect it. I'm from New Jersey, and I fucking love this place.

Oh my, I'm done... No more tests, no more papers, no more enforced readings, no more midterms or finals. I cannot believe it...pinching myself... OK, so now what? Supposedly this is the transition into the "real world". So what exactly is this "real world"? Have I been living in a fake world? So when they give me my diploma next week, do they take me to the side and say "Hey, now that you have made it, we have to tell you the truth. You have been living in a mock world. Welcome to the real world!" At which point I am supposed to answer "Oh, thank you so much for elucidating me! So I just spent all these years of my life and all this money to realize that this is not the real world? Ok, so now do I get my money back?"

Last Day!!!

I cannot believe I have made it here, today is the last day of finals!!! I honestly do not think I could last another day, I have been in freak study mode for the last week and I am about to fall over. For those who have put up with me for the last couple of weeks, you are the best. For those who thought I was so difficult, well sucks for you, because I do not forget nor will I forgive.

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

On a much happier note, tonight I will be inducted into the Golden Key International Honour Society! It is a great accomplishment for me, and if nothing else, it is a result of my hard work. One again for those of you who have shared this with me, and have been truly happy for me, thank you.

The happiness of a [person] in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

New Jersey!!!

I just read this and I loved it!!! So what if New Jersey is called the Garden State because Oil and Petrochemical Refinery State did not fit on the license plates (thank you to Miss Congeniality for that one, I love that movie- oh and she obviously is Miss New Jersey in the pageant). Ah and yes the Statue of Liberty has been ruled to be on New Jersey territory, so take that New York (sticking my tongue out at the computer screen- my mind is so gone, I know).

The Jersey girl has a love of an unpretentious good time, and a certain sense of style. Jersey girls are about attitude. They're about eating pizza, drinking beer, having great hair - and enjoying it all. She's got a mouth on her. She says what she means. And she's got a nice, cheerful laugh. Bottom line, all of them are sexy as hell.

Graduation

Ah yes, the day nears!!! Only 5 more finals, 3 papers, 13 days, 21 hours, 49 minutes and 38 seconds...

So I have not been here in a while, the 10 things I have to do every minute of every day keep me from having the time to type up just a few lines. Finals are hell, and whoever thought of them should rot in the flames of hell for all eternity, or something of that nature. So here I am writing what seems to be like the millionth paper today (in actuality it is only the second on this fabulous day) and of course I must take a break.
I actually came to read a paper written by one of Miguel's friends, that he recommended, which was nothing shy of brilliant. It was an amazing paper on feminism, which was able to merge humor with all the seriousness of the topic. As a great appreciator of all types of writing I must say that it was one of the absolute best papers I have ever read, applause.
I am taking a break from writing a paper on a gravely depressing book, The Pawnbroker. I have also seen the movie adaptation and to say it falls short does not even hit the tip of the iceberg. There is no way a movie can ever truly depict the dismal, extremely painful scenes in this book. So of course, it is quote time! (Cut me some slack, my brain if fried) One of my favorite scenes in the book is an interaction between the main character and a woman who is hoping for a relationship with him, but he is too dead inside to care.
"My dear Miss Birchfield, how touchingly naïve you still are, you discovered loneliness, you found that life was unjust and cruel. What an astounding accomplishment! And with commendable humility you say that I might despise your suffering, that it might seem less dramatic than my own. Very well⎯but let me try to make some sense to you. There is this, my dear sociologist. People who have ‘suffered’ in your little world may or may not become bitter, depending, perhaps, on the state of their digestive system or whether they were weaned to early in infancy. But wait, this you have not considered. There is a world so different in scale that its emotions bear no resemblance to yours; it has emotions so different in degree that they have become a different species! I am not bitter, Miss Birchfield; I am past that by a million years! Bitter, why should you say that? Do you hear me curse people? Have I delivered a diatribe on the evils of fascism, the infamies of Hitler? Do not be silly. I am a man with no anger and no desire for vengeance. I concentrate on what makes sense to me, that is all. I want nothing at all but peace and quiet."