Today wasn’t that bad really. I feel like I will make it now. I do. As you know last night was graduation. I have always not appreciated being forced to attend/work graduations but then when I am there I really love being there. I love watching the kids I’ve known forever walking and there parents are so proud and they look so nice. I was happy for being at graduation last night. I had one student who I’ve taught in several classes and got to know pretty well. Last night at graduation, she walked down the steps from receiving her diploma and ran over and hugged me. It was a really nice gesture and meant the world to me. She’s one of those students who I will know for sometime. She’s an old soul who is more talented that she will know for sometime.

Afterward we went to Four Peaks brewery for appetizers before grad nite. Grad nite is a Dave & Buster’s kind of place like Chuck E Cheese for adults. They have tons of games, bowling, prizes, movies, everything. I rarely stay up past about 10pm, and at about 3:30AM I could barely keep my eyes open. Finally at 4:14AM I went home. At 5:30 I got to bed and slept until about 2 in the afternoon. Dante is really funny; he loves to sleep on Donna’s side of the bed when she’s not here. And it’s nice to have someone (thing?) here with me.

I asked Ray if he wanted to catch a movie today, and he and Matt were interested. We ended up with one other at Blades of Glory. It was as funny as it looked!! Hilarious! Afterward I went to a student’s graduation party. I really wasn’t planning on going, but I did, and I was really glad I did. There was a group there that I really don’t know that well, and they were the choir kids. Later in the evening they clambered around the piano and began playing and signing. I was mostly awestruck. I had one of the girls in class this year, and I was frustrated because she’d come into class late a lot. I understood that singing was her passion, but I really didn’t get it until tonight. Now I do. Yes, I still think English is important and she needs my class, but now I really see this blinding passionm, and I appreciate that.