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We drove the entire Seattle-Broomfield, CO trip in just under 24 hours. It was quite a feat of driving. We drove essentially nonstop the entire way. I went to my college orientation today and learned quite a few new things. The day was long and I was really tired when I got back. I’m glad I only have to do this once. I checked out the Greek scene and decided to go Greek and then changed my mind to not go Greek, but to at least check out the Greek thing the first week of school (Rush).

Questions?

Do I have everything? What did I forget? What if I can’t find what I need? Can I ship it out? Who will be my friend? Will I succeed? Will I fail? What if I fail? What if I don’t like it? What if I don’t like Mines Park? What if I don’t like my roommate? What if I don’t like Colorado? What if?

Home Sweet Residence Hall

I got a pick fat packet in the mail from Mines today. It contained (drum roll, please) my Residence Hall information. That is, where I’m going to be living for a little while. I am staying in Residence Halls @ Mines Park. It’s off the main campus area, but it looks very promising. I also recieved information about my roommate, Jason from Colorado, and my apartment mates, Logan from Nebraska and Michael from Colorado. I am currently attempting to contact Jason, my roommate. I better continue packing. I never knew I had so much crap.

Ugh

Today was the first day of Day Camp. Four more to go. I am completely exhausted. Unlike last week, which went by at sub-snail pace, this week should be over pretty quick. Unfortunately, that brings me one week closer to the end of summer, ergo beginning of school. On the bright side, I have managed to track down everyone from Billings. We should be getting together soon and that should be lots of fun. In other news, Annie Mesaros left for Romania today. Jeff Staples leaves for Russia in a week or so.

I really hate thinking about college

I really hate thinking about college. It’s not that I’m not looking forward to college, because I am. I am so pumped. It just requires such a paradigm shift. A shift I haven’t experienced a long time over 4 years. A shift that bring backs so many memories that I don’t want to consider. However, in many ways, this shift will be new. I have closed a chapter in my life that took 18 years, 4 months, and 8 days to write and opening a new chapter that should hopefully be open only for 5 years…maybe 6.

I keep going over specific events in my head from the last 4 years. Odyssey Trip, Spring Days, Sound of Music, Crazy Wayne, Tyler’s class, Track, Vocal Revue, How to Succeed, Canyon Lands. Where I’ve been and where I am now are so far apart…it’s incredibly hard to comprehend. I don’t want to let go. In many way’s, I won’t let go.

Reconnecting with old friends

I spent most of today tracking down people from my 8th grade class at Billings Middle School today. The project was really all Ted Kalmus’s idea. He suggested that I try and find out where everyone is. Well Ted, I did…almost. I tracked down everybody except for two people. It also sounded like everyone I talked to was excited that I was reconnecting with them and would very interested in getting together sometime this summer. I would like that. I wonder what my High School reunion will be like…that’s really scary. This is who I’ve found so far: Status of Billings Alumni.

Big Antenna

I was driving to SAAS to drop of some stuff and saw this tiny little car with this fricking huge antenna and thought it just might be worth writing about. Don’t mind the white blurry part, that’s just a crack in my windshield. Seeing as I was driving, it’s not like I could actually look at the viewfinder to see what I was shooting. I just sort of pointed it in the general direction and took the shoot. So there, I wrote about.

In other news, I stopped by Molly Brown Temps to show them my passport for the W-9 form. That means that I am official employed as a temp worker which means that…well, I’m not quite sure what the means. On the way to school, I saw Britney, a SAAS graduate of the class of ’04 (i.e. my classmate), and said high. Yesterday was her birthday…Happy Birthday Britney. I also say 50 First Dates; it was actually a pretty funny movie.

Ted Kalmus

I didn’t know what else to call this blog, so i just labeled it Ted Kalmus. Who is Mr. Kalmus? Ted is my old 8th grade teacher, one of a few who have joined the ranks of teachers I truely enjoyed learning from. And not because they were easy, mind you. No, Ted is part of an elite group of teachers that strive to making learning fun, but don’t skimp on the educational aspect, nor make it easy to pass. These teachers gave me many of the tools I have needed for life. Others in this category include Edwin (1st grade), Mrs. Vos (2nd/3rd grade), Mrs. Shy. (5th grade), Michael (6th/7th), and Haj (9th-12th grade). Anyways, I had coffee with Ted today and that was fun. We talked about college
and school and where other Billings Alumni were and even a little business. It’s teachers like Ted that make you want to be a teacher yourself.

After par-tay

The after party was incredible. We jumped on two Greyhound buses and took off to this ferry parked on the North side of Lake Union. Got some food, listened to the music, got some Henna tattoo’s, and commented on how tired we all were. A short while later, we had hypnotist come in. Being the somewhat skeptical person I am, I wanted to experience first hand how this whole hypnotic thing worked. I was rather interesting. Here’s my official report on hypnosis:

Hypnosis is a rather misleading term for might otherwise be called a trance. In fact, the entire idea behind hypnosis is to lure to participant into a state between consciousness and unconsciousness by almost making them fall asleep. That is to say, the participant is so relaxed that they actually might could be considered to be sleep walking. While in this trance state, the participant can be requested, not forced, to perform a variety of acts. These acts must be something that the mind would find valid in a dream, thus certain acts are unable to be performed.

After that, we headed down south to Champ Karts. We raced around the track, played video games, ate yummy food, and played Blackjack, Craps, and Roulette. At 5:30ish, we headed back to Seattle where we had breakfast. We then proceeded to school.

I went home and promptly took a short 5 hour snooze.

Graduation

Graduation was quite a sight to behold. The entire ceremony was excellent. It was a truly one of the best celebrations that I have ever been too. It was a sight to behold. Everybody loved my speech, it even got quite a few laughs…even though it wasn’t intended to be funny. I suppose it’s just my natural charm and charisma. Steve congratulated me on my budding speech career.

Hot seat wasn’t half as bad as I thought it might be, although I was disappointed that Jean didn’t have any stories about me; not even the one about me trying to ride a cow on Cayonlands. There were, however, plenty of other great stories. The stories really wouldn’t make any sense here because they would be out of context, so I won’t post them. After hot seat, we sang Celebration and then we were done. Kind of. We partied into the night…more on that in the next blog.