Graduation!!
Jun. 6th, 2003 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielWell. This is it. Tonight I graduate from high school forever. I am finished.
Yesterday was my last day of school. Seniors checked out of periods 1-4 and then went to graduation practice and got pictures taken. Today there was graduation at 10 with the band. It went well. As class president I get to lead everyone in turning their tassel. I have control! Nathan is an idiot though and I'd love to kick his behind. But I won't. My self-control is better than that. He his such a pain. Amanda has told me in the past that he's nice. I told her today that I simply didn't see it. She realized that just because he's nice to her doesn't mean he's nice to everyone.
Anyway. Graduation. Wow. I've been going to school at Royal since I was in Kindergarten. And day care/preschool before that. This is all I know and now I have to move on. Although I realized last night that I have the choice to say "screw this" and not continue my education. Hah! Like I'd do that. No, I'll be sad to be gone, but it's time for a change. And college next fall will definitely be a change.
Neesha!! I'm going to miss you so much! You are my best friend and I've shared everything with you. And probably more than you've wanted to know. You've always been there for me. You've always listened to my crazy story ideas. You've always read my crazy story ideas and said they were good. I have seen you almost every day for the past few years and now I'm leaving and I won't see you for long periods of time. Expect e-mails, letters, and phone calls galore. I don't know how I'll get by without my Neesha to laugh at things with. I love you tons!!!
OK. I'm a little better now. Elizabeth and her parents are coming over today for graduation. Party!
I'm re-reading Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire in preparation for June 21 and I am reminded how remarkably ignorant Harry seems to be about his past, his family, and his enemy. You would think that with him being famous and all he would have tried to find out something about it. Wouldn't he be curious about the history of Voldemort and the Death Eaters? Why doesn't he ask more questions?
Perhaps it is a good sign that he's not obsessing over what happened when he was a baby. The events don't control him. But still, I think I'd be a bit curious. And does he not ask question because he knows Dumbledore won't give him answers until he's ready?
And who the heck told Tom Riddle about his prejudiced dad anyway? They had to have been kicking themselves when he went on his evil little rampage. And does it upset Draco that he can never be Harry's equal enemy, but only a childhood bully? Poor, poor screwed up Draco. I really want to see something interesting happen with him. He deserves some more development and there are so many things that could be done with him.
Yesterday was my last day of school. Seniors checked out of periods 1-4 and then went to graduation practice and got pictures taken. Today there was graduation at 10 with the band. It went well. As class president I get to lead everyone in turning their tassel. I have control! Nathan is an idiot though and I'd love to kick his behind. But I won't. My self-control is better than that. He his such a pain. Amanda has told me in the past that he's nice. I told her today that I simply didn't see it. She realized that just because he's nice to her doesn't mean he's nice to everyone.
Anyway. Graduation. Wow. I've been going to school at Royal since I was in Kindergarten. And day care/preschool before that. This is all I know and now I have to move on. Although I realized last night that I have the choice to say "screw this" and not continue my education. Hah! Like I'd do that. No, I'll be sad to be gone, but it's time for a change. And college next fall will definitely be a change.
Neesha!! I'm going to miss you so much! You are my best friend and I've shared everything with you. And probably more than you've wanted to know. You've always been there for me. You've always listened to my crazy story ideas. You've always read my crazy story ideas and said they were good. I have seen you almost every day for the past few years and now I'm leaving and I won't see you for long periods of time. Expect e-mails, letters, and phone calls galore. I don't know how I'll get by without my Neesha to laugh at things with. I love you tons!!!
OK. I'm a little better now. Elizabeth and her parents are coming over today for graduation. Party!
I'm re-reading Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire in preparation for June 21 and I am reminded how remarkably ignorant Harry seems to be about his past, his family, and his enemy. You would think that with him being famous and all he would have tried to find out something about it. Wouldn't he be curious about the history of Voldemort and the Death Eaters? Why doesn't he ask more questions?
Perhaps it is a good sign that he's not obsessing over what happened when he was a baby. The events don't control him. But still, I think I'd be a bit curious. And does he not ask question because he knows Dumbledore won't give him answers until he's ready?
And who the heck told Tom Riddle about his prejudiced dad anyway? They had to have been kicking themselves when he went on his evil little rampage. And does it upset Draco that he can never be Harry's equal enemy, but only a childhood bully? Poor, poor screwed up Draco. I really want to see something interesting happen with him. He deserves some more development and there are so many things that could be done with him.
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To The Future (and to Fiction)
Date: 2003-06-08 10:01 pm (UTC)In a couple of days it will be a year since I graduated from high school (I know because I have a friend whose graduating from the same school this year), and amazingly I can still see everyone in their red robes and caps. I can still see the white fold-out chairs they had set up in rows and I still remember a story given in one of the speeches. It all passes so quickly, but at the same time, the great part about it is, if you wish you can still see everything in the freeze-frames in your mind.
It truely must be these feelings from experience that gives people the inspiration to right the awe-inspiring stories that today exist.
In one of you last replies, you said, "It would be great to write something that makes people think or see something like they never saw it before. But it's hard to come up with something new." Have you ever heard (perhaps even in a movie) someone tell someone that they will see it once they are ready to see it? This, too, applies to books. I read Gone With the Wind in seventh grade. I remember it being good, however at that time I was a completely different person.
I want to go back and read it because as a seventh grader, I knew only so much about life, and I am positive that there were insights in the story I missed. So in writing one thing and putting it out there for someone to read. They may not see something they've never seen before then, but in the future, they may. I agree with that book you said you received about writing, in that you shouldn't beat yourself up because you can't write something new. And I say this because what you write are your thoughts and ideas. Although they may not be new in your eyes, it could introduce a whole new aspect to someone else on something they'd never given much thought before. And this could be that very result you get when you read a Neil Gaiman book.