Three down, one to go!
Jun. 12th, 2009 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bitchy_merlinWhew! Hellllllllo, LJ, it's been too long!
On Monday, at 11:00 am, I will have officially finished high school. What a strange thought. I feel like James in SBP.
Just... weird, y'know? Because theoretically, life continues after high school, but I can't visualize my life after June ends. I never imagined myself here, yet here I am and I haven't the foggiest idea where I go from here.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
In other words, now that the obligatory "I can't believe it *tear*" part is out of the way, have a summary of the last week or so:
- attended Review Week, which was quiet and mostly sober
- sat through my last assembly in Lismer Hall. Fine-Meyer gave the Farewell speech to the grads and it succeeded in a) boring us all to tears and b) making us feel like shit for existing. Way to go, Miss.
- studied my ass off for my exams. Calc/Vectors was literally a unit a day for two weeks (at least 6h a day). Studies in Lit. was a joke (the review, not the essay, which I may or may not have bombed completely), and Bio was severely messed up in that I had half a day to learn the entirety of the subject matter. Fun times. But I wrote that this morning and it is officially done, so let us say no more about that! French is all I have left.
- went to LuminaTO! IT IS AMAZING, YOU SHOULD ALL GO. I went to the disco dancing night on Tuesday with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moonangelchan , which was highly enjoyable, though we didn't stay long. Then last night, my mom's friend got us tickets to see Nederlands Dans Theater, and that was absolutely sensational. The choreography, the way the dancers moved so quickly and in tandem - the entire show was breathtaking. Watching the dancers twist and twirl; the movement of their bodies - I can't do it justice, but it was fabulous and I'm quite literally overjoyed that I got the chance to see them.
- dicked around with friends for a while today - yay no more 10 am - 11pm studying!
NOW I GET TO CATCH UP ON FANDOM! ♥
On Monday, at 11:00 am, I will have officially finished high school. What a strange thought. I feel like James in SBP.
James feels like a promising radish: just as talented, just as useful, and just as coherent. "I hadn't actually thought about it, you know. Not really."
"This meeting is for preparation," McGonagall explains. "I am doing my best to be patient with all of you, because the vast majority of you haven't actually thought about it, you know, not really."
"It's just that a year's a really long time," James mumbles.
"Hm," McGonagall says. "A really long time that passes very quickly. Your future is something to consider, however hard that may be for all of you. I hate to be the harbinger of schedules and planning and adult comprehension, Mr. Potter, but someone must make you realize Hogwarts isn't all there is."
"Well," James scoffs, "I knew that." Under McGonagall's terrifying stare he blanches. "I just didn't know it," he adds, quieting. "You know."
"Unfortunately I do not," McGonagall says. "But perhaps you can enlighten me."
James shrugs uncomfortably. "It's just -- I know it isn't, right? But I sort of thought I could-- I could make it be. It's hard to think of the world being any other way. My parents talk about Hogwarts like their lives pretty much ended there, you know? I keep thinking -- well, even if it doesn't last forever, it's been my life. Since I was eleven. I know it won't be forever, but I can't imagine what will happen afterwards." He's just talking and he can't make his mouth stop moving and it's horrible and in a panic he jabs a quill into his thigh just to make himself shut up
please.
Reference: Shoebox Project, Chapter 12 (during James Potter's career-counselling session with McGonagall)
"This meeting is for preparation," McGonagall explains. "I am doing my best to be patient with all of you, because the vast majority of you haven't actually thought about it, you know, not really."
"It's just that a year's a really long time," James mumbles.
"Hm," McGonagall says. "A really long time that passes very quickly. Your future is something to consider, however hard that may be for all of you. I hate to be the harbinger of schedules and planning and adult comprehension, Mr. Potter, but someone must make you realize Hogwarts isn't all there is."
"Well," James scoffs, "I knew that." Under McGonagall's terrifying stare he blanches. "I just didn't know it," he adds, quieting. "You know."
"Unfortunately I do not," McGonagall says. "But perhaps you can enlighten me."
James shrugs uncomfortably. "It's just -- I know it isn't, right? But I sort of thought I could-- I could make it be. It's hard to think of the world being any other way. My parents talk about Hogwarts like their lives pretty much ended there, you know? I keep thinking -- well, even if it doesn't last forever, it's been my life. Since I was eleven. I know it won't be forever, but I can't imagine what will happen afterwards." He's just talking and he can't make his mouth stop moving and it's horrible and in a panic he jabs a quill into his thigh just to make himself shut up
please.
Reference: Shoebox Project, Chapter 12 (during James Potter's career-counselling session with McGonagall)
Just... weird, y'know? Because theoretically, life continues after high school, but I can't visualize my life after June ends. I never imagined myself here, yet here I am and I haven't the foggiest idea where I go from here.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
In other words, now that the obligatory "I can't believe it *tear*" part is out of the way, have a summary of the last week or so:
- attended Review Week, which was quiet and mostly sober
- sat through my last assembly in Lismer Hall. Fine-Meyer gave the Farewell speech to the grads and it succeeded in a) boring us all to tears and b) making us feel like shit for existing. Way to go, Miss.
- studied my ass off for my exams. Calc/Vectors was literally a unit a day for two weeks (at least 6h a day). Studies in Lit. was a joke (the review, not the essay, which I may or may not have bombed completely), and Bio was severely messed up in that I had half a day to learn the entirety of the subject matter. Fun times. But I wrote that this morning and it is officially done, so let us say no more about that! French is all I have left.
- went to LuminaTO! IT IS AMAZING, YOU SHOULD ALL GO. I went to the disco dancing night on Tuesday with
moonangelchan , which was highly enjoyable, though we didn't stay long. Then last night, my mom's friend got us tickets to see Nederlands Dans Theater, and that was absolutely sensational. The choreography, the way the dancers moved so quickly and in tandem - the entire show was breathtaking. Watching the dancers twist and twirl; the movement of their bodies - I can't do it justice, but it was fabulous and I'm quite literally overjoyed that I got the chance to see them. - dicked around with friends for a while today - yay no more 10 am - 11pm studying!
NOW I GET TO CATCH UP ON FANDOM! ♥
