Things no one ever told you about life, but you learn when you get there:

1. Graduation day isn't the day you really leave Hamilton behind - it happens in stages. Last year, when we graduated, we all said "Wow, we're Hamilton alumni now!" There was something I couldn't put my finger on, however, that separated us from the older Hamilton alumni. I've figured it out now. You aren't really separated from Hamilton until you don't know anyone who goes there anymore. This year is a big year for graduation, because most of the people I knew at Hamilton were in the class of 2008, and furthermore, this is the one year anniversary of silence between yours truly and one of the graduates. If I haven't kept in touch with them now, I won't again - I'm pretty sure of that. And now, the only ones left to know are the ones in Julia's class, and they are very few. I physically left my undergraduate institution last year, and I've been a lot of places since then, but I'm emotionally leaving it today, and leaving it for all time at next year's graduation, because there will be nothing left that ties me to it (minus the profs, of course). Oh Hamilton...there are things I don't miss about you at all, and there are things about you that I miss a lot. One thing that Hamilton gives you is a sense of identity - "I went to Hamilton" - that ties you to everyone else who has attended there. Good or bad, we've all been Hamiltoned - all of us.
CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2008!!! ENJOY YOUR DAY!!!
2. There is nothing more disappointing than thinking while you're on a walk, "I have chocolate chips in my freezer! I can put them in yogurt and have Nora Mathews Boston Everymeal when I get home," only to arrive home and find out you don't have any yogurt.
3. Sunshine is a for real spirit lifter. Everyone has been gone from Binghamton in the days since I've been back, and I've been semi-lonely about that because being at home one doesn't need to remember how to exist alone, but now that the sun is out and it's warm, I've gone for a walk to the runway, thrown open my windows, and when I'm done drinking my little glass of Sprite and showering I'll go down to Panera, order a lemonade with money I don't have, sit outside and read all day, with a smile on my face to boot!
4. Dreams can be quite a doozie! Last night I had a dream that I was wandering around BU with Efi trying to get everything set for the summer, only all the classes were being taught by Hamilton professors and he kept trying to play a tiny violin? Then Jessica and Ashwini and I were trying to finish a class and had a sleepover where something went wrong and we had to hide creatures from another dimension? And the night before I had a dream that Jessica and I and a whole bunch of other people were staying over in Marcy Elementary School, like as a boarding house or dorm, and Joe Pietruch came and found me at night and we went on long midnight walks holding hands, and I was real sweet to him even though I was real confused and full of disbelief the whole time? Where the hell is my brain? I'm not even going to bother to tell LaToya about these because she'll just shake her head. Or maybe I will - who knows?

I have my interview at Target tomorrow morning at 9am with someone named Melissa. I'm debating about whether to wear a skirt, or capris and a button-down, in case they actually want me to do things. Advice? Comment.

My Dark Side is: Indulging Myself
My Candy Heart says: Be Good
I'm Bewitching Because of my: Charm