graduation!!! +more

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay graduation happened  on the... idk 5th or 6th
and I got my driver's license at the end of May
and I went on the senior cruise
and I returned from senior week
and I got a MacBook Pro at UMBC Honors Orientation

Senior cruise is a thing our school holds. We take charter buses up to the inner harbor and board a small ship. It cruises around the harbor while we eat dinner/dance/talk. It was generally not that exciting but still enjoyable!
Senior week I think is more common, but if you still don't know, it's the week between us graduating and the rest of the school being let out. Kids around here all head up to Ocean City and get drunk all week. Since most of our parents are (understandably) not okay with this, our crew went down to Williamsburg since Robin has a time share there. We spent the week going to Busch Gardens, Colonial Williamsburg, minigolfing, shopping, etc. Chris and Mary played like 3 versions of Resident Evil, and we also watched the whole first season of Dexter, which is awesome, I recommend it.

I got back from that on sunday, and Tuesday we headed to UMBC for Orientation. Considering they haven't recieved my final transcript, my AP scores, or even graded my English test, I don't know why they even tried to schedule stuff. To make matters worse all the art classes I had to take were full. But apparantly that's because they ~reserved~ them for visual arts majors. So I was supposed to add myself to the waiting list, then some woman would approve me. Too bad that woman wasn't available. The next day I get an email and they basically said I need to redo my schedule to the suggested visual arts curriculum. Wow why did I waste and entire day there for nothing

BUT WAIT. It wasn't all a waste because I got my new MacBook which is lovely ;u; I still haven't entirely figured out how to work a Mac but I shall learn!!! As soon as my UMBC account is updated, I can print out a coupon, take it to the UMBC bookstore, and I can buy Adobe CS4 for cheap :3 (as well as Microsoft Office)
I'm thinking about using some of my graduation money to buy a new tablet as well. My Graphire3 is getting old, and the new Intuos4 looks awfully pretty...

oh and in continuation from my last journal, we did get a new desktop, and I see why everyone says Vista is awful. IE freezes for no reason (one time I exited the program and it just kept opening the same window faster than I could X them out. Had to just shut the comp down), and what's worse, my tablet driver (MADE for XP) KILLS it.
As in, you install the driver, and the computer will no longer even boot. We had to reinstall EVERYTHING (this was when the computer was only two weeks old ). Fortunately the only thing lost was a project for AP Euro that I had decided to do ahead of time to get ~ahead of the game~ (lesson learned: it's best do do things the night before they're due). Vista is also incompatible with this program called Blackboard that hosts all the UMBC placement tests.

but in general life has been good, even if I haven't been active online. I sure wish I could change my mood from something besides anxious though.
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