Freedom is SWEET!  I finished my finals officially at 630 on Tuesday with my Managerial Accounting final, and right after that the BUAD crew went out for Korean BBQ and ice cream to get us out of our sour mood over that damn cheescake question.  Tiffanie left on Wednesday (sob), but my strawberrylessness does have a silver lining:  I officially have my own room!  I slaved and slaved for hours dying a slow death as I moved and cleaned, but I managed to achieve the room o’ my dreams! 

BEFORE

THE GLORIOUS AFTER!

My sister graduated yesterday, and we lucky Business students (as well as the Cinema students) get to graduate at the Shrine, where all the celebrities go for the Academy Awards (or some other awards ceremony, I don’t really care which).  Here are some pics of the inside…

There were over 900 Marshall students graduating, and around 5000 people in the auditorium.  I felt so dirty leaving b/c of the crush of people all around me trying to squeeze out of 4 double doors.  My hand must have brushed at least 5 saggy-baggy ass cheeks as I struggled through the crowd….ACCIDENTALLY brushed, mind you…(shifty eyes)…yes, saggy ass cheeks all for Lor!  All for Lor! *AHEM*

This chandelier is so pretty.  The whole time I was actually clapping for the chandelier, not the graduates.

The speaker for the USC general ceremony (all graduates) had Senator John McCane (McCaine?  McCayne?  McWhatever) as the speaker, and the Marshall ceremony had Richard Cook (Chairman of Walt Disney) as the guest speaker, and one of the student speakers was baseball player Mark William Prior  (he rejected a draft to the NY Yankees to pursue his college education, he is one of 17 MLB players to have a college education, and the 4th of the 17 to graduate from USC!  He plays for the Cubs now, his speech was BY FAR my favorite). 

After three days hanging out with my mama, I’m really tired.  I’ll leave you with a picture of the bunnies I’m currently babysitting

Jason and I have such great friend chemistry!  We were meant to be roommates.  Too bad once we live together we’ll want to kill each other. 

jgusc213: Ikea has such shitty furniture.
jgusc213: I’m shopping for a bed.
watermelonwish: my air mattress is leaking
jgusc213: Are you sure?
jgusc213: You might just be gassy.
jgusc213:
watermelonwish: hahaha
watermelonwish: i can’t find the hole in the bed though
jgusc213: I’m surprised it lasted this long.
jgusc213: Poor thing.
jgusc213:
jgusc213: Just set your alarm to go off very couple of hours and have a pump nearby.
jgusc213: You can just keep adding air to it.
watermelonwish: hahaha
watermelonwish: it kind of lasts the night
jgusc213: Maybe I’ll get a race car bed!
jgusc213: That’s good.
watermelonwish: but when i wake up its all soft
watermelonwish: HAHAA
watermelonwish: you might as well get a princess bed or something
jgusc213: I could get a canopy bed with a mosquito curtain around it.
watermelonwish: i want a curtain
jgusc213: I could be like sleeping beauty!
watermelonwish: just b/c its cute
jgusc213: You already have that going on with your bunk bed.
jgusc213: You have it all curtained off.
jgusc213: I actually assumed for a while that you slept suspended upside down from the light fixture.
jgusc213: That’s how most bats sleep.
watermelonwish: i prefer to be called “creature of the night” thank you very much
jgusc213: Or Lorettcula.
watermelonwish: hahah
watermelonwish: instead of sucking blood
jgusc213: You suck BBQ sauce from Carl’s.
watermelonwish: haha
watermelonwish: and ranch
jgusc213: Yes.
watermelonwish: i love their ranch
watermelonwish: so do you if memory serves me….
jgusc213: That shit’s orgasmic.
jgusc213: I would put it in my shoes so I could feel it squishing around all day if it were socially acceptable to do that.
watermelonwish: not to mention sanitation concerns
watermelonwish: but then again
watermelonwish: you roll around in your own filth
watermelonwish: (don’t deny)
jgusc213: I wouldn’t eat after this.
jgusc213: I just wash it off.
jgusc213: And smell my toes a lot for the rest of the day.
watermelonwish: hahaha
watermelonwish: it bet it smells even better the day after
jgusc213: You have to let it soak into the callouses and bunions.
jgusc213: Then you’re in flavor country!
watermelonwish: hahaha
watermelonwish: mmmm
watermelonwish: its the better way to get rid of tough skin
jgusc213: Don’t get all worked up now.
jgusc213: Soak it in ranch and then chew it off.
watermelonwish: let the ranch soak into the callouses
jgusc213:
jgusc213: Tasty.
watermelonwish: haha, i was thinking more on the “it gets germy and infected and then your whole foot falls off”
watermelonwish: but chewing it off is good too
watermelonwish: mmm
watermelonwish: guess what i’m eating for din din!
watermelonwish: bacon, onion, and roma tomato pizza!
watermelonwish: a burst of flavor!
jgusc213: You’ve added tomatoes!
watermelonwish: i have
jgusc213: Blasphemer!
watermelonwish: it really good that way!
jgusc213: Blasphemer!
watermelonwish: SHUT UP!
watermelonwish: i am THE CREATOR of the SACRED PIZZA
watermelonwish: ALL CHANGES I MAKE BECOMES LAW!!!
jgusc213: You have brought shame on the traditions of your fore fathers!
jgusc213: Very true.
jgusc213: In this arena I yield to your evident omnipotence.
watermelonwish: haha, you may now call me “pizza-jebus”
watermelonwish: or just jebus for short
jgusc213: The Pizza of the Christ.
watermelonwish: hahahaha
watermelonwish: exactly
watermelonwish: and as i get whipped
watermelonwish: i dont cry out
watermelonwish: i take it like a “man”
jgusc213: More like you endure the 30 minute wait until the pizza man comes and delivers you from starvations.
watermelonwish: and i then crucify the pizza
jgusc213: In your stomach.
watermelonwish: and it resurrects as a brown holy log
watermelonwish: bow to the log infidel!
jgusc213: The resurrections comes whenever the Spirit moves you.
jgusc213: Literally.
watermelonwish: yes
watermelonwish: it moves me every morning
jgusc213: And sometimes in the afternoons.
watermelonwish: sometimes 3 or 4 times a day
jgusc213: And sometimes in the middle of the night.
jgusc213: And sometimes during class.
jgusc213: And sometimes during a meal even.
jgusc213: You have IBS.
jgusc213: Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
watermelonwish: so thats what its called!
watermelonwish: FINALLY A DIAGNOSIS FOR MY HORRIBLE DISEASE!
jgusc213: It’s a condition afflicting nearly 4 million menopausal women.
jgusc213: I have it.
watermelonwish: menopausal eh?
jgusc213: And now you have it.
jgusc213: I haven’t menstrated in years.
watermelonwish: you must have given it to me when we shook hands on the day we met!
jgusc213: :’(
watermelonwish: bastard!
jgusc213: It’s highly contagious.
watermelonwish: you’ve ruined my life….
jgusc213: You have to admit though.
jgusc213: There wasn’t much to ruin.
watermelonwish: now i will never have the children i’ve always wanted…to eat
jgusc213: You can still have children. You’ll just have to do an invitro with a surogate slave wench.
watermelonwish: hmmm
watermelonwish: slave wench eh?,…..
watermelonwish: so jason….
watermelonwish: how are your mom’s eggs lately?
watermelonwish: fertile?
jgusc213: My mom is a “husk” as Julie would say.
jgusc213: She is no longer a woman.
watermelonwish: NO!
watermelonwish: i guess i’ll have to harvest tiffanie
watermelonwish: she won’t be a willing host
jgusc213: I can come over and hold her down if you need the help.
jgusc213: But I imagine you’ve forced yourself onto Tiff so many times, she’s gotten used to it.
jgusc213:
watermelonwish: little do you know!
watermelonwish: its the other way around my dear
watermelonwish: i sleep with a fork under my pillow
watermelonwish: thus the leakage in the bed
jgusc213: I bet that poped it.
watermelonwish: hmm yes it now says a lot of prayers
watermelonwish: and it has aged terribly
watermelonwish: do you get it?
jgusc213: No.
jgusc213: I see.
jgusc213: Popped. Poped.
watermelonwish: yup
watermelonwish: you win a prize
watermelonwish: hooked on phonics!
watermelonwish: thats hooked on phonics, the phonics game that (supposedly) makes learning fun
jgusc213: As the saying goes: “When you’re 8 you’re hooked on phonics and when you’re 80 you’re hooked on calonics.”
jgusc213: That might be misspelled.
watermelonwish: but funny nonetheless
watermelonwish: i’m hooked on ecstasy if that makes any difference
watermelonwish: and you’re obviously a sex addict
jgusc213: I’m hooked on Lysol.
jgusc213: And Merle’s milk!
jgusc213: For shame!
watermelonwish: hahaha
jgusc213: :-[
watermelonwish: Merle’s milk…with a hint of chest hair for added zing, eh?
jgusc213: I strain that out as best I can.
jgusc213: Otherwise I get hair bals.
jgusc213: Nasty, nasty hair balls.
watermelonwish: i’ll be sure to get you meow mix hairball develpment formula
watermelonwish: it will help you cough it out
jgusc213: Thank you so much.