non-graduate

Apparently today was the last day [of two] to pick up your cap and gown for graduation. My roommate told me to go and check to see if, considering I still am class of 2009, my name would be on the list and therefore I should pick up my cap and gown. I got half way to school before I realized I should just call the registrar’s office. After talking to a dim-witted girl who didn’t understand that despite not needing a cap and gown because I will not be walking at class of 2009 or class 0f 2010’s graduation, I now have this information. Even though I am still class of 2009, the graduation that takes place for those who finish school in December actually happens in January of 2010 which technically makes me a winter 2010 graduate (bleh) and therefore I don’t pick up my cap and gown until next spring (I guess?). Because the idiot girl I spoke with didn’t understand that I just want it to have it she told me that if I’m choosing not to walk at all next spring then I don’t need to pick one up but after repeating myself for what seemed like the 10th time she told me that I will have to wait almost a year to acquire a Quinnipiac University cap and gown…

and with that I am annoyed on this dismally rainy day. I also just received a pleading email from the Dean of the School of Communications asking me [again] to fill out the senior survey [again] so as to better inform this hell hole of a school about my college experience. Hopefully I’ll be the incredibly lucky non-graduate that receives the 250 dollar prize for actually replying to their survey.

This is #1 on the list of things I shouldn't be doing with my time.

On the list of things I should be doing with my time, this would not be one of them. But as four years are coming to a close, I thought that at least somewhere, if not at some point facebook, I should post these pictures that at one point I was so attached to I had to scan them in (because we didn't all have digital cameras then) so as to be able to have copies in case I lost the prints. Enjoy, its a little slice of my past I don't necessarily feel like I ever lived.


Let the night before senior ball commence.


It seems Kate and I were constantly being dragged to car shows out on the lake that spring.


Jon, Jessie and Jason at our senior lock in.


Pat, Jamie and Matt at Film Fest.


Stevie playing with a lightsaber while waiting in line for the midnight showing of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith


Charlie playing pool at our friend Matt's 18th birthday party.


Jamie and Matt.


Stephanie and Emily at the midnight showing of Star Wars.


Sam and myself waiting in the very same line.


Sam wearing the C3PO helmet someone brought along with them.


The quintessential Penfield class of 2005 photograph.

unsexy

oh. my. gosh. this is the funniest thing i've seen in quite some time. ladies and gents, i give you the 100 unsexiest men of 2009.

the sparklies

"it's unintentionally ridiculous and takes itself way too seriously, as if it didn't realize that it's actually a film about glitter." (do yourself a favor)

I'm beginning to get weirded out by how strange people are when it comes to their obsessions - granted I'm absolutely not ashamed to admit that I too wanted to know where to get a pair of cable knit long mittens like the ones from Twilight, but sparkle makeup, really? Hot Topic, and any self respecting male for that matter, ought to call it quits before they dig themselves a grave to lay their coffin in (corny pun totally intended).

twilight dvd release

Okay I can't help it so I have to just say this. What in the name of Scorsese Coppola and Spielberg was Summitt Entertainment and Stephanie Meyer thinking when they let the nut job of a director Catherine Hardwicke try to adapt this novel onto the big screen?! Having read and reread all four of the books from the Twilight series in the last year I'm having a hard time understanding why any studio would allow a film with such franchise potential to be rushed into the way they obviously did with this one. Don't get me wrong the characterization was fantastic - everyone looked the part (with the exception of the token minority characters taking the place of Bella's cafeteria crowd) but they clearly weren't given the time or [appropriate, talented, right] direction in order to flesh out their characters in front of the camera. Ugh, I'm disappointed and ultimately bought the dvd more for the laugh than anything else. I suppose not every franchise can be Harry Potter - and even those have taken on an entity of their own.