the thrill is gone

how did i get so lazy? well, today started out lazy, then my illness got worse so i kinda had an excuse to be lazy. but seriously. i had nothing to do today and could have gotten so much done, but ended up sleeping about six hours during the day. but i feel like crap now and all nasty. i’m about to register for doing the whole graduation thing. it’ll cost $25 to rent the cap and gown and get my tassel. i could pay more and some souvenir tassel and the “gold stole of gratitude,” but what the hell will i do with that crap? let’s keep it cheap. i already had to pay $40 to apply for graduation. and apparently i’m graduating summa cum laude so that’ll cost me $15 for some medallion. then i’ll need frames for my diplomas which i’ve asked kim to get me as my grad present. so for two of those that adds up to over $160. i don’t think i’ll be buying announcements (is that bad?) or a school ring. do people still buy those for college? and now i have to decide how i want my name read. (insert all your ethan grover jokes here) my options are ethan chambers, big daddy mack e propa, ethan allen chambers, or ethan a. chambers. we’ll go with allen. and away it goes. i still don’t want to do it all. it’s all awkward when they call your name and i remember looking terrible in that stupid hat. i’m not sure why, but graduating and getting honors with the word cum in it, none of it really means much. it’s not like i’m using these degrees as my ticket to a career. they are basically a ticket to go to another school. maybe i’m looking at it all wrong. whatever, i’m just sick. and i have lots of homework. kim should be home soon with a jamba juice for me. i haven’t had one of those since before the internship. speaking of, tomorrow morning is when the boss speaks at my school so i can’t wait for that.

i’m running out of things to talk about. i have to work tomorrow and early, early sunday. the only good about that is that it’ll be homework time. i’m still working on getting my stupid employee parking pass from my school. first time i went they looked at me like an idiot and the guy i was supposed to talk to was gone for the day. next time i go they act like they knew all along what i was in there to get, but then see that i’m a student with 17 credits and if i want an employee pass, i’m gonna have to pay for it and get a student pass instead. in one of my shining moments i walked out on them while they were mid-sentence and called my work to get it all straightened out. you really think i’m gonna pay for a parking pass half way through the semester so that i can park to go to work? screw that shit. this is all completely retarded and should have been worked out already by my work and the parking whores. so i sit and wait in their stupid office for about fifteen minutes while they “straighten it out” and they come back and tell me that they can’t get in touch with the guy who they need to talk to about it all. “sorry, there’s just a bit of confusion. when we get in touch with him, we’ll call your work and let them know.” so that was yesterday and i haven’t heard anything back. so i’m sure i’ll be making a trip there a third time next week to get this taken care of.

mmmm, kim is home.