I’m saddened and disturbed…

Apparently, someone managed to find my xanga on google by searching for “prickly feeling prostate”. Given my dad’s present condition, I’m most definitely saddened by the reminder that he does indeed have prostate cancer and also by the knowledge that many men experience the same thing. I’m mildly disturbed that my personal blog comes up on google with a search such as that… worse… its on the first stinkin’ page of the search. I suppose its something that this page disallows any search engines (that play nice with the internet) to crawl it… but it doesn’t help that I’ve crosslinked it with my xanga.

Well… school is over. I am officially a college graduate. The last two weeks of school were more stressful than I think I’ve ever experienced. The idea that one professor with a mild amount of spite and an ego that might rival Steven Hawking’s could dent my academic record in a way as to give me unpleasant questions later or even prevent my graduation put me under a pressure that I’m sure at least started the development of ulcers. The moment I got my grades back was like having an air craft carrier lifted off my dead carcass and somehow being brought back to life. I hadn’t slept more than 4 or 5 hours any night in the prior two weeks, my back had knots in it that felt like bones, and I was getting migraines on a daily/hourly basis… I suppose that situation augmented my feelings of graduation a bit… it was nice either way though.

I get to do nothing for a couple months, save stress a bit over finding an apartment in North Carolina and pay a $2000 medical bill to the OSU ER. It will be nice… perhaps I can finally go find some dirt to drag my truck though… at very least I’ll finally get some time to spend with Tim and March outside of our [almost] annual summer vacation. It looks like I’ll get to go down to NC in July to look at apartments and again in August just for fun. No out of country touring like I wanted to, but I’ll save that for next summer when I can afford to do something interesting and hopefully take someone with me (no requests, invitation only 🙂 ).

Graduation Party tomorrow. I hope to see a lot of you there.