School's out hooraaay!

While I am definitely super happy, it was a kind of strange ending for school, I guess in part because of yesterday, when I left early since I had finished all my finals, and there was nothing else to do that day. When I came back for the half day of school today, it was just... odd. No class did anything, and barely anyone was in school. It had this strange surreal feeling to it, and it went by in the blink of an eye. This whole year has been so difficult, so frustrating, and for a long time it was like I was fighting back at it, or something. But then it just ended like a puff of smoke -- sort of like a puff of smoke dissipating in a room. It isn't immediately gone, or noticeably gone right I way. You notice when it's gone, and you noticed when it was there, but it just faded out in between.

I guess I can't really describe it well. Still, now that it's done, I can focus on summer work and Japanese. Also, the other day, I picked up Lolita to see if I could actually read it. The very first time I picked it up, I put it right back down again at the first sentence. The next time, I put it down about twenty pages in. This time, I got further, but I still just had to put it down. I'll give it to Nabakov, he is good at writing someone who is downright creepy.

In other news, I saw Donnie Darko and She's One of Us (a French film), and neither made any sense, really. I guess D.D. made some sense, but the French one had absolutely no coherency; it was bizarre. They are apparently making a sequel to Donnie Darko? About his sister? (Will this one make more sense?)

In conclusion, school is over, and I got A's on all my finals! except algebra which I didn't find out my score on Yay!

Most kids say that they're just going to skip the last half-day of school, so as an incentive to make everyone come to school on the last day, my science teacher says he's bringing in bagpipes. Yay bagpipes?

Graduation was great. My sister's speech was very good and blessedly short; all the speeches were good, really. I'm pretty sure everyone wanted to get out of that gymnasium, though. It was VERY hot in there, and I don't think there was air conditioning. By the time it was done everyone was all red in the face, so pictures with the graduates all came out looking kind of funny, but ah well. I'm really going to miss the graduates, though. ): It was kind of weird to see all those people who I'd only ever seen in the halls, thinking, "I'm probably never going to see them again." And I don't mean my friends — I mean the strangers-but-familiar-faces people. I'm going to miss them in a very odd sort of way.

Anyhow, now that this is the last full week of school, summer actually seems in reach. YAY. But we still have finals week to get through. Anyhow, this is all keeping me rather busy.


Not really much else to say.