Top Model

Okay...so maybe this is just me, but I find it really innappropriate that the season finale of America's Next Top Model is taking place inside of a Thai temple. I'm not even Buddhist, but I know that these temples are considered extermely sacred to the Thai people, and I find this super offensive and disrespectful. These temples were built to pay homage to Buddha, not Tyra Banks and the next cover girl model.

All good things...

Well, it's official: I am now done with grad school and my assistantship. Today was really anticlimatic since I didn't walk at graduation. In fact, I kept forgetting that I was even graduating all day.

I think that this next week or so is going to be really difficult as reality sets in that I am leaving.

It's going to be hard to be without my job and to not be a student: two things that have in many ways defined who I am these past two years.

My friends are all leaving one by one to go home to their families for the summer, while others are moving into their first apartments or celebrating graduation with their families and friends.
I'm super excited for them, but at the same time, I think I'm feeling really left out of the excitement.

Oh well. Shouldn't I be more excited about my new job and moving to Japan?

Sigh...

I'm done!

Yay!!!! I'm done with my masters degree!

(okay, well not officially until May 13, but I'm finally done with all of my course work)

Almost over!

Yay!!!! The Rebel Achievement Awards and the Campus Housing Banquet are finally over! I totally love event planning, but it feels really good to have that weight lifted off my shoulders. (and not to toot my own horn, but tonight's event rocked!) I'm also especially proud that I managed to only cry a little, even during the really sentimental parts.

All I have left to do is to turn in a paper, do a short presentation on it, and close down my building.

I can't believe it's almost over!!! Who knew that I would not want to leave this place so much!? Can't I just stay here in my cute little apartment with my job and my students and friends forever?

I'm sad =(