deadlines

so I just realized that I missed the deadline to order the terrible pictures the professional photographer took of me on the graduation stage. Maybe there was a subconscious thing at work there. The pictures were pretty bad. I like the pictures Eric took of me much better, though they are far less straightforward, and as he put it, a little too artsy for my mother. One is just my face in profile before the ceremony, the cap on my head, the tasssels near my temple. The other one is the cap on my lap, the tassels with the '06 clearly visible and my hands resting on top. I also really liked one of a sea of graduates and me glancing back and waving.

I left the task of reprinting in his capable hands, so it should be about six months before I get those out to the interested parties.

Otherwise, I have been experiencing a strange trickle of male friends back into my life. My good friend Adam is visiting from New York for two weeks. And my friend John wants to see a band play with me. I am happy to see them again and wondering where my other in-town male friends have gone off to, Lehn is busy with being a landlord and seems to have completely opposite schedules with me, Pete is busy with managing the bar he works at, and Dan the Man is just all mysteriously gone.

I always promised myself that I would never lose track of them, especially due to complications with the boyfriend. But sometimes it's just easier that way. And I have been so busy. To tell you the truth, there's been lots of time lost with most of my friends.

I hung out with my friend Laura on Friday night. It started out as a couple drinks and ended up being a pub crawl to all the places she gets advertising from. We had a good time and I realized it had been a long time since I just went out, blew money, got swaying drunk. And the last time might have been with her somtime back in February. With school being as busy as it was, I just couldn't go out. I couldn't work as much. I didn't have as much money.

I hope this summer changes all that. I think it's been a good start so far.

stine