End of Graduate School

The past week was wonderful and insane.

Thursday the 6th was a record breaker, the day of the most perfect weather I've ever experienced here in New England. It was 71 degrees with the lightest of winds and just cloudy enough that the sun wasn't too bright but still there, you know? I walked around the city with no coat on, and worked with beautiful pictures and work, and read comic books. What a fabulous, fabulous day.

Last Saturday Aral and I had a end of semester holiday party, the first really big gathering in our home. All the GCS graduate students from Simmons came, and my old room mate and friend Jennifer, and a few others. It was awesome - some of the girls really dressed up - Tasha came in a tuxedo with a hot pink shirt she had picked up at a used formal wear place in Cambridge. We had lovely food and I made a gingerbread house as a centerpiece and everyone got pretty drunk off Glug, a Scandinavian alcoholic thing that Aral had been brewing in a dark place for a month or so. Glug has red wine and port and all kinds of spices and raisins and almonds and a bunch of other things in it I don't want to think about, but everyone seemed to like it.

And even though it was only two days after that record breaking perfect weather day, it snowed like crazy during our party for the first time this year. Some of us got drunk and went outside to stand in it, even me, even though I was not wearing shoes, but just my stripey stockings on my feet. It was so great to have a gathering where everyone was happy and warm and had fun. I hope we can throw another party again soon, but I can't think of when we'll have the opportunity again.

I went to my last Basic Materials Repair Class and my last Publishing Class Wednesday. Saturday I will go to my last Appraisal class, which is my last class as a grad student ever. I now have what I came to Boston for, my degree. I'm a librarian. I'm an archivist. I'm 25 years old, and I'm not quite sure what comes next. I think I'll lie around my apartment and eat snack foods and watch TV and learn to master Adobe Photoshop 6 better.

Well, that's what I would do if I had time to lie around, anyway. My sister Sara is coming to town Saturday night, and we have a week of touring colleges and fun stuff planned, and then we both fly back to Nashville for Christmas. After that, I won't be in town until the 2nd of January, and I've got work and my giant job search to conduct if I want to pay the rent in February. So I've got too much to do, once again. What else is new?