Last Night at Reed
My last night at Reed was a little strange. On one hand I wanted to see some people, have some fun, do something appropriate for the end of my beloved Reed; on the other hand I had a monstrous load of packing to do. In the event I concentrated on the former, and stayed up til 5.30am doing the latter. Seemed reasonable to me.
Convocation was on Monday morning, and the campus was impressively spruced up and had acquired the biggest white tent I had ever seen to house the graduation ceremony. I saw all my senior friends graduate, I was so happy for them! Such a lot of hard work for them this year- that bloody thesis- and they absolutely deserve a big fancy congratulatory event.
In the afternoon I worked up on packing up my room while Kaia practised how to work a manual car for the roadtrip (glad I'm not a driver, sounds difficult). I was nowhere near done by evening, packing is hell. Towards dinnertime Kaia and I went out on the roof of Anna Mann, climbing out of my third floor window onto a cute little grey sloped roof. I have been wary about this roof all year; I was afraid of Death, but Kaia persuaded me. We sat and smoked a clove and watched the arriving dusk through the leaves of the huge Anna Mann oak.
Went off to the print room in the art department after that, made a few prints and cleared out my drawer. I've rather enjoyed hiding out and printing for the last week or so, keeping clear of the increasingly deserted campus, (very depressing). At about two in the morning Kaia and I went to the Hot Cake House with Joe and Pavel. The Hot Cake House is slightly dodgy and open 24 hours, we drove there in Joe's car while he played apocalyptic rock opera. I had a waffle, it was good spending some time with Joe and Pavel, I am very fond of both of them. Then a huge bumble bee landed on my face and 'Sweet Home Alabama' started playing , and we got freaked out and decided it was time to leave.
Convocation was on Monday morning, and the campus was impressively spruced up and had acquired the biggest white tent I had ever seen to house the graduation ceremony. I saw all my senior friends graduate, I was so happy for them! Such a lot of hard work for them this year- that bloody thesis- and they absolutely deserve a big fancy congratulatory event.
In the afternoon I worked up on packing up my room while Kaia practised how to work a manual car for the roadtrip (glad I'm not a driver, sounds difficult). I was nowhere near done by evening, packing is hell. Towards dinnertime Kaia and I went out on the roof of Anna Mann, climbing out of my third floor window onto a cute little grey sloped roof. I have been wary about this roof all year; I was afraid of Death, but Kaia persuaded me. We sat and smoked a clove and watched the arriving dusk through the leaves of the huge Anna Mann oak.
Went off to the print room in the art department after that, made a few prints and cleared out my drawer. I've rather enjoyed hiding out and printing for the last week or so, keeping clear of the increasingly deserted campus, (very depressing). At about two in the morning Kaia and I went to the Hot Cake House with Joe and Pavel. The Hot Cake House is slightly dodgy and open 24 hours, we drove there in Joe's car while he played apocalyptic rock opera. I had a waffle, it was good spending some time with Joe and Pavel, I am very fond of both of them. Then a huge bumble bee landed on my face and 'Sweet Home Alabama' started playing , and we got freaked out and decided it was time to leave.
posted by susie r at 11:58 PM
<< Home