I am officially one graduated son of a gun. It took a lot of pain, toil, sweat and tears (some of them mine) to get here, and I’ve finally finished it. I am a University of Florida alum.
The ceremony, for its part, was extremely boring. The ueber-nerds (6 of them) got fancy glass plaques (hooray?) to commemorate the four years they spent without a life, and then the rest of us (2,000 of us) marched across the platform, shook hands with some people, and then sat back down for the rest of the time. The temptation to give Bernie Machen a kiss on each cheek was terrible.
For those of you who endured the ceremony, thank you. I hope that the food at the party afterwards was enough to make up for it.
For those of you who got me through this whole college thing, I could not be more grateful. Mom, Dad, I’m looking at you. Thanks for supporting me these past 4 years.
For the one who helped get me through these last two semesters, I love you, and I’m so thankful God put us together. Thanks for the many times I’ve come to you with school stuff, and for all the help and advice you gave me.
And finally, for those of you who gave me Lowe’s gift cards, you people rock! I already ransacked the place and ran up eighty bucks worth on a box & saw combo, a hand sander, some lumber and a new strawberry plant for the balcony garden, which has become my obsession lately.
Here’s how it looked a few weeks ago:
And here’s what it looks like now:
It’s really come a long way already. The tomato plant is about three times bigger than it was, the basil seedlings are coming out of their pot, we added some lettuce (in the foreground), and we also planted some oregano, rosemary, and poppy flowers in an old Coca-Cola crate. And now strawberries. I’m having a lot of fun with this, and I’m sure Lauren would too if I ever let her do anything.
So, the real question is, what are we up to after this?
Well, the section of life we’re in for the next two weeks or so is what I like to term The Crazy Hiatus. In two weeks, I start a summer internship at Clark Nikdel and Powell in Winter Haven, and Lauren will be doing Publix and taking a class at PSC to get her teaching certification.
Right now, we’re scrambling to get boxes so that we can pack everything up, and we’ll probably start sneaking stuff home soon. I have some other comments on how things have been going, but that’ll have to wait until tomorrow’s blog post, because this one is already way too l
