Alas, I've finally created a blog! Sitting here waiting for the shipping company to come and pick up my eight (8) boxes, I figured now was the perfect time to begin. While I'm technically not an inhabitant of the real world yet, I do graduate from Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Music degree on Sunday. Thus, my immediate and extended families (all SEVEN of them!!) arrive tomorrow and Friday, so today really is my last chance to do anything alone for a good week and a half. I'm beyond excited for them to arrive, but I might as well savor this solitude.

I'm not sure if my natural curiosity, boredom, excitement about the future, or my generational narcissism got me to cave, but it doesn't matter much, cause they will all serve as excellent motivators to keep this blog up for at least a year. Wait, random thought...in my second year of teaching, will I have to change the name of this blog?!? First world problems.

Anyway, this week has been crazy, relaxing, and amazing, all at once. Senior week at IC provides the graduating seniors a chance to spend time together doing whatever they like (within legal and moral limits, of course). My friends and I didn't subscribe to the college-sponsored senior week pass, but that doesn't mean we haven't been living it up. Last night we went on a dinner cruise on Lake Cayuga. We dressed to impress and shared an amazing three hours, during sunset, on the lake. Food was deeeeeeelicious, the view was spectacular, and the company was grand. Before we boarded the ship, these odd townies asked us what the occasion was. When we told them graduation, they apparently assumed that we were graduating from high school. When we politely corrected them, they laughed. Hmph. I don't know many high school students who dress in formal wear and go on dinner cruises! But I digress. A good time was had by all, and when the bill for $600 came, we all felt very fancy and super rich. Note: there were ten of us, and that included food, boarding fee, gratuity, and tax, so it really wasn't that crazy.

Four years worth of stuff is about to be picked up, so I should get going. I'm surprisingly not as sad about this as I thought I would be. Maybe it's because some of my best friends are coming to visit in a couple of months, or maybe it's because I'm looking forward to the next chapter. I'll leave you with a link to one of my best friend's blogs. She's doing an incredible internship this summer with special needs students, so I highly recommend following along and learning what you can from her research. If you have a blog, let me know, and I can follow it!

http://www.erikastdenis.com/blog.html