2004-04-25 - 11:03 a.m.

Everything is changing now that my college experience is quickly coming to an end. It's going so fast that it's making my head spin. All my final projects and papers are due in the next couple weeks and then I have to spend the week before graduation packing up all my belongings.

In recent weeks I feel like I've gotten closer to certain friends and roommates than I have been all year. Doesn't that just figure? Just when I start to get used to an environment and feel like I really belong, then it's time to move on....and not by choice!

Everyone I know seems more excited about my graduation than I do. I don't think I can actually be excited about it until after the ceremony goes smoothly and I have the diploma in hand. There's a nagging fear in the back of my mind that someone will suddenly send me a paper that says I'm one unit short or something and can't graduate on time.

I think it's hard to be enthusiastic about graduation because so much is changing and because there are so many things that have to be done in a short amount of time. I know that I am tired of scool and need a break, but I will also miss it.

Friday, I did something I haven't done in a very long time. I bought a dress and dress shoes. My parents and grandparents want to take me out for dinner the night before graduation and I felt like nothing I owned would be nice enough for the occasion. The dress is nice but I still feel really self-conscious all dressed up. Give me jeans and T's or give me death! ;)

My latest method for keeping my sanity through all this, is a new project. I bought a black book with blank pages and I am creating my own yearbook. I'm going to have my friends sign it and it will include pictures, playbills and tickets from shows/concerts I have gone to, drawings from signs I have made for work, etc.

I just can't believe how fast time has passed!

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