Nostalgia

It's the midst of finals week. EDS already had it's graduation last Thursday. Since I didn't know a lot of last year's class and Amy and I were about to take off for a cross-country roadtrip last year I was anticipating the end of schoolwork.

But this year I get to be one of the one's left behind. And let me tell you it sucks. When I graduated from Berkeley I kept thinking how happy I was that I wasn't taking an extra semester. Mostly because you have to remember all the people you used to talk to in all of their old haunts.

So nostalgia hits you like a mack truck, and I know I've been grieving my friends leaving since Spring Break. It's odd how finals begin and then graduation happens so quickly. You see someone briefly and wonder if that's the last time you'll see them. And maybe you didn't get especially close to them but they were a regular face and aquaintance in your life. You got used to their smile their voice saying your name. You both laughed at a certain joke during orientation. Or maybe you pulled metal poles out of the ground with him.

Well to avoid anymore of this sob story I'm making my Summer Reading List:
1. The Amber Spyglass
2. Black Skin, White Masks
3. The Last Battle
4. The Metamorphoses
5. This Bridge Called My Back
6. The Great Deluge
7. The Gita Govinda
8. Laura Nee Michael
9. Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

Summer Movie/TV Watching List:
1. Prince Caspian
2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
3. The Dark Knight
4. When Harry Met Sally
5. Stagecoach
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
7. The Neverending Story
8. The Muppet Show Season Two

How I hate saying goodbye.