graduation

today was surreal.
i felt as though i was watching everything happen
instead of, in fact, living it.
watching each action take place, the story develop,
and providing some internal commentary. this couldn't be real.
it was a dream, a movie, anything but real.

yet, i am not so naive as to be overtly repulsed by
the passing of time. it is certainly inevitable and
impossible to control. it just makes you wish you
could live those moments, to savor them.
thank goodness for photographs and film so we can that
much better remember them.

so, for better or worse, today i graduated from high school
as a member of the class of 2008.





[a year ago today: white hole]

"every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end."
~Semisonic


in all the excitement of prom and prom weekend the following
days are backblipped for your pleasure:

-PROM!
-After-Prom
-Really After-Prom