Tuesday Tell All

Graduation Day- Abravanel Hall, June 1998

This is the night of Senior Dinner Dance

The topic for today was GRADUATION. At first I was like- huh. I'm not gonna do this one. But then I got to thinking about my graduation. I realized that my memory of it is fading, so now is probably a good time to record some of the few things I do remember. Sorry if it's boring- so was the ceremony, so I guess it works :)

I remember that 2 weeks before graduation I still hadn't received a grade from BYU on the homestudy stuff I had done to make up for missing school my Sophomore year. (Yes, it took me 2 years to finish a history and english class that should have only taken me a semester) That whole mess is somewhat of a long story- I'll spare you that. Let's just say I was a little on the unmotivated side in High School (not that much has changed since then, just clarifying :)). So anyway- about 10 days before graduation I received my grade, and had a bit of a Chris Farley moment when I saw the C and realized that "I PASSED!!! I'M GONNA GRADUATE". This is all a little embarrassing, so I'm not sure why I'm announcing it all to the world, but whatever. So anyway- I was glad I was going to be able to walk across the stage. AND I also found out that I was actually going to have a couple honor cords! How cool is that- barely graduating, but wearing cool honor cords :) (I thought they were cool anyway). I think my two were for Social Studies, and Citizenship (no N's or U's- that's me :))

I remember the day of Gradution- school was crazy, we did yearbooks, and then my friends and I did something else, I don't remember what though- Andrea or Natalie if you can help me out on this one- I'd appreciate it :). Then I remember going home to get ready for graduation and having some big blowout with my mom. Who knows what it was over. But we were almost late getting to Abravanel Hall. (you can tell I had been crying in that first picture of me on my graduation day- how lame) My dad dropped me off while they parked. I remember walking around taking pictures of all of my friends with the fountains going off. Then we went in and sat down for graduation. I remember someone giving a talk about Twinkies, and then that was all I remember of the ceremony other than that the choir sang- it was REALLY long and REALLY boring to me. I remember walking up through the door in the back of the stage and Mrs. Li standing right by the door telling Natalie that she got a good grade in our Biology class and then telling me that I didn't get as good a grade as Natalie, but that I did "okay". (unfortunately I remember that moment all too well :) I was bummed :)) So then they said my name and I walked across the stage and received my diploma. It was one of those moments in life where you're like- "that's it?".

Then after graduation I remember my parents and I went with Andrea and her parents to Della Fontana (I have no idea how to spell it, and it's out of business now). We were really excited to eat there, it was a Prom restaurant! One of my favorite memories of this occasion was when Andrea's dad found a fly on his lettuce. LOL. He was so disgusted, and I teased him a little about it since it was "just a fruit fly". So he told me he would pay me a dollar if I ate the piece of lettuce with the fly on it and that if I did he wouldn't complain to the waitress :) So I did!! (it really wasn't that big of a fly) I think he really gave me a dollar too- it was so funny. Good times.

SO anyway- after dinner we (Andrea, Natalie, and a bunch of other friends, I can't remember who all was there) went and did something else- I have no idea what it was. I do remember driving up to the canyon to watch the sunrise. That was fun. But we were totally wasted (just tired- don't be thinking I drank anything!), so we went back to my house and fell asleep on the trampoline in my backyard (I think we had taken our pillows and blankets with us wherever it was that we went- I still can't remember!) So there ya have it. I really don't think any of this is all that fascinating or important, but it's what I remember :) Like I said- feel free to fill me in on anything I missed Natalie and Andrea- you were both there! How crazy that that was 10 years ago too!! That's hard to believe! Those were fun times, but I'm glad I'm not in High School anymore, or college for that matter. I do like looking back though- good times!